Parasocial Relationships Explained

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1. 29 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   Corrected six issues found in the article's research section: Unverified prevalence figures attached to the real Celebrity Attitude Scale, an unverified magnitude figure attached to real neuroscientist Dar Meshi's work, a wrong institution for Diana Tamir's real 2012 self-disclosure study (Harvard at the time, not Princeton), a minor institutional timing note for Jaye Derrick's real 2009 social surrogacy study, an unverified conversion-rate figure attached to the real Sunday Riley FTC case, and an entirely unverified meta-analysis attributed to two real Seoul National University researchers whose actual work is on an unrelated topic.

   What the page claimed

   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.

   What was corrected

   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: 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.

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