McCutcheon Lynn E, Ashe Diane D, Houran James, Maltby John
Department of General Education, DeVry University, USA.
J Psychol. 2003 Jul;137(4):309-22. doi: 10.1080/00223980309600616.
Celebrity worship is a form of parasocial interaction in which individuals become obsessed with 1 or more celebrities, similar to an erotomanic type of delusional disorder. Drawing on the cognitive factors implicated in erotomania, the authors hypothesized that celebrity worshippers might be expected to exhibit verbal, visuospatial, and cognitive deficits related to flexibility and associative learning. This general hypothesis was tested in a sample of 102 participants who completed the Celebrity Attitude Scale (L. E. McCutcheon, R. Lange, & J. Houran, 2002), the Entertainment-Social, Intense-Personal, and Borderline Pathological subscales, and 6 cognitive measures that included creativity (verbal), crystallized intelligence, critical thinking, spatial ability, and need for cognition. The results were consistent with predictions and suggest that cognitive deficits only help facilitate an individual's susceptibility to engage in celebrity worship. The results are discussed in terms of the multivariate absorption-addiction model of celebrity worship.
名人崇拜是一种准社会互动形式，在这种形式中，个体痴迷于一位或多位名人，类似于钟情妄想型的妄想障碍。基于钟情妄想中涉及的认知因素，作者们推测，名人崇拜者可能会表现出与灵活性和联想学习相关的语言、视觉空间和认知缺陷。这一总体假设在102名参与者的样本中进行了测试，这些参与者完成了名人态度量表（L.E.麦卡琴、R.兰格和J.胡兰，2002年）、娱乐社交、强烈个人和边缘病理分量表，以及6项认知测量，包括创造力（语言）、晶体智力、批判性思维、空间能力和认知需求。结果与预测一致，表明认知缺陷只会助长个体对名人崇拜的易感性。根据名人崇拜的多变量沉浸-成瘾模型对结果进行了讨论。
