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: fabricated prevalence figures attached to the real Celebrity Attitude Scale, a fabricated 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, a fabricated conversion-rate figure attached to the real Sunday Riley FTC case, and an entirely fabricated meta-analysis attributed to two real Seoul National University researchers whose actual work is on an unrelated topic.

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   Article attributed fabricated specific percentages and an entirely fabricated study to real researchers and a real FTC case, and misstated Diana Tamir's institution at the time of her study.

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   Removed or generalized each fabricated figure and the fabricated meta-analysis, corrected Tamir's institution to Harvard, and kept the real underlying findings intact without the invented 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 fabricated statistics grafted on, plus one entirely invented paper attributed to real researchers working in a different field.

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1. Correction 29 July 2026

   Emir Baycan: Corrected six issues found in the article's research section: fabricated prevalence figures attached to the real Celebrity Attitude Scale, a fabricated 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, a fabricated conversion-rate figure attached to the real Sunday Riley FTC case, and an entirely fabricated meta-analysis attributed to two real Seoul National University researchers whose actual work is on an unrelated topic.

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