Parasocial Relationships Explained
Parasocial relationships: one-sided emotional connections where audiences feel they know creators, but creators don't know individual fans.
What was corrected
Article attributed included an unverified percentages and an entirely unverified study to real researchers and a real FTC case, and misstated Diana Tamir's institution at the time of her study.
Removed or generalized each unverified figure and the unverified meta-analysis, corrected Tamir's institution to Harvard, and kept the real underlying findings intact without the unverified precision.
Why this is better
Verified every named researcher, scale, and case study against real published sources; found the consistent pattern of real people, instruments, and legal cases with unverified statistics grafted on, plus one entirely unverified paper attributed to real researchers working in a different field.