The concept of celebrities has shaped societies throughout history. This work addresses the problem of celebrity identification from social media interactions. “Celebritiness” is a characteristic assigned to persons that are initially based on specific achievements or lineage. However, celebritiness often transcends achievements and gets attached to the person itself, causing them to capture po...

This paper presents both a rationale and a pilot study for using celebrities to present computer generated content recommendations. The rationale explores how people's parasocial relationships with celebrities influence decision-making. The pilot study examines if celebrity presentation of recommendations influences subjects' qualitative assessment of a recommender. Statistical tests on a small...

OBJECTIVE To assess parents' responses to common, potentially misleading strategies for marketing energy-dense and nutrient-poor (EDNP) child-oriented foods. DESIGN Between-subjects online experiment to test whether nutrient claims and sports celebrity endorsements on the front of packs of EDNP products lead parents to prefer and rate these foods more favourably. SETTING Australia. SUBJEC...

Purpose The purpose of the current study was to explore among young adults whether celebrity worship predicted the incidence of elective cosmetic surgery within the period of eight months after controlling for a number of known predictors of elective cosmetic surgery. Methods 137 young adults completed questionnaire measures of attitudes towards a celebrity whose body image they admired, previo...

The current study analyzed celebrity lifestyle brands’ Pinterest pages in order to determine how they framed their brands to users. Pinterest features a strong female user base, and users employ the site to collect items that they aspire to purchase, or aspire to be like. Results indicate that celebrities use their lifestyle brands to promote their celebrity status, give advice on home décor an...

BACKGROUND Many studies have shown that media reporting of suicide incidents can trigger suicidal behaviours in viewers and readers. Yet little is known about the exact timing and duration of the imitative effects. METHODS We estimated the Poisson regression model using original data on 109 celebrity suicides and daily suicide counts (n = 8035) in Japan from 1989 through 2010. Various fixed e...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between celebrity worship and body image within the theoretical perspective of intense para-social relationships with celebrities. DESIGN Correlation and multiple regression analyses were used to examine the relationships between celebrity worship and body image. METHOD Three samples, 229 (102 males and 127 females) ado...

OBJECTIVE Throughout the past several years, there have been a number of entertainment celebrity suicides in South Korea. The aim of this study was to investigate the clustering of suicides following celebrities' suicides in South Korea from 2005 to 2008, particularly according to certain characteristics. METHODS Seven celebrity suicides were examined and defined using the Korean Integrated N...