Parasocial-relationships (PSR) are viewers' imaginary relationships with media personae.
Despite the growing body of research on PSR, the field is still lacking a clear�…

Parasocial relationships are one-sided relationships that people hold with media figures.
Although it has been previously demonstrated that people often feel strong friendships with�…

This study supports the refinement of the concept of parasocial interaction (PSI) to apply to
mediated personae that viewers might dislike. By contrast, traditional approaches have�…

This paper considers the phenomenon of parasocial interaction (PSI) used by media
researchers to describe the relationship between media users and media figures (from�…

Parasocial interaction (PSI) is a term that originated with Horton and Wohl (1956) to describe
the nonreciprocated manner in which audience members interact with media personae�…

Parasocial interaction and parasocial relationship are often conflated conceptually and
methodologically, leaving researchers unclear as to which concept is being tapped. This�…

The celebrity-persona parasocial interaction scale (CPPI) is designed to measure how
media consumers form parasocial relationships with celebrities or popular fictional�…

A cross-sectional survey (N= 371) addressed inconsistent findings in previous research
regarding the associations between attachment dimensions, social compensation variables�…

While studies on parasocial relationship (PSR) have been conducted for nearly 60 years in
various media contexts, research on PSR with book characters has been neglected so far�…

When the anthropologist Donald Horton and the sociologist R. Richard Wohl published their
essay on parasocial interactions (PSI) and parasocial relation ships (PSR), titled “Mass�…