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dc.contributor.authorNorth, Adrian
dc.contributor.authorSheridan, Lorraine
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T14:26:10Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T14:26:10Z
dc.date.created2013-09-18T20:00:32Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.citationNorth, Adrian C. and Sheridan, Lorraine P. 2009. Death, attractivness, moral conduct, and attitudes to public figures. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying. 60 (4): pp. 351-363.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38802
dc.identifier.doi10.2190/OM.60.4.c
dc.description.abstract

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 negativelyrelated 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.”

dc.publisherBaywood Publishing Company Inc
dc.titleDeath, attractivness, moral conduct, and attitudes to public figures
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume60
dcterms.source.number4
dcterms.source.startPage351
dcterms.source.endPage363
dcterms.source.issn0030-2228
dcterms.source.titleOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
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