Life With Alacrity: Cheers: Belongingness and Para-Social Relationships

JUL

2005

On belongingness, the psychological phenomenon where you want to belong to a group, so, if one doesn’t exist, you make one up, even if that means you latch on to TV characters. In addition to the Cheers reference made in the article, it would explain my total devotion to Sports Night.

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