Parasocial Relationships Help Us Learn About Others and Ourselves

Our one-sided connections with celebrities and social media influencers can have surprising benefits

Herbert Lui
OneZero
Published in
7 min readJul 26, 2021

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I forget the year, but Facebook was only starting to catch up to Myspace, YouTube was shiny new, and I had just started blogging. Sometime around here, my friends and I watched one of…

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Herbert Lui
OneZero

Covering the psychology of creative work for content creators, professionals, hobbyists, and independents. Author of Creative Doing: https://www.holloway.com/cd