Death, Attractiveness, Moral Conduct, and Attitudes to Public Figures

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13630419
AutoresAdrian C North (0000-0003-0046-1299, Heriot-Watt University, autor correspondente), Lorraine Sheridan (0000-0002-8705-0531, Heriot-Watt University), Lorraine P Sheridan (Heriot-Watt University)
Ano2010
Volume60
Fascículo4
Páginas351-363
Data de publicação2010-03-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/om.60.4.c
PMID20397615
OpenAlexW2101346486
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas23

In this study, 2,894 participants rated attitudes toward their favorite public figure on the Celebrity Attitude Scale. It was noted whether each figure was alive or dead, and a panel of four independent judges assessed each in terms of their moral conduct and physical attractiveness. Dead figures appealed less and were subject to lower "intense personal" celebrity worship, and death was unrelated to "borderline pathological" and "deleterious imitation" celebrity worship. Physical attractiveness was positively related to overall celebrity worship and "intense personal" celebrity worship, but negatively related to "borderline pathological" and "deleterious imitation" celebrity worship. Moral conduct was associated negatively with "deleterious imitation" celebrity worship. Results are discussed briefly in terms of their implications for research on physical attractiveness and "copycat suicide

Attractiveness · Copycat · Imitation · Physical attractiveness · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Worship · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Law · Media Influence and Health · Psychology · Social Psychology