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The Unidimensional Relationship Closeness Scale (URCS): reliability and validity evidence for a new measure of relationship closeness.

The results show that the scale is unidimensional, with high reliability across relationship types (M α = .96), and evidence consistent with validity included substantial within-couple agreement for the romantic couples and substantial friend-stranger discrimination for the female friends.
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Parasocial interaction and parasocial relationship: Conceptual clarification and a critical assessment of measures

Parasocial interaction and parasocial relationship are often conflated conceptually and methodologically, leaving researchers unclear as to which concept is being tapped. This research clarifies…
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Investigating the Relationships Among Child's Age, Parasocial Interactions, and the Social Realism of Favorite Television Characters

This study examined the relationships among children's age, parasocial interaction, and the social realism of children's self-reported favorite television characters. Children (N = 183) aged 5–12…
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Ignore your partners' current Facebook friends; beware the ones they add!

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Parasocial Interaction as More Than Friendship

This study supports the refinement of the concept of parasocial interaction (PSI) to apply to mediated personae that viewers might dislike by revealing that participants did experience PSI with disliked characters as well as liked characters, and that the two measures of PSI did not appear to assess the same construct.
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Using modern technology to keep in touch with back burners: An investment model analysis

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Sequential Persuasion Strategies: Testing Explanations for and the Generality of the Legitimization of Paltry Favors Effect

The legitimization of paltry favors effect (LPF) is a sequential persuasion tactic whereby small contributions toward some overall compliance-gaining goal are linguistically minimized. An experiment…
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Simmering on the Back Burner: Communication with and Disclosure of Relationship Alternatives

The term “back burner” describes a desired potential romantic/sexual partner with whom one communicates with the intent of establishing a future romantic or sexual connection. Contemporary…
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Clarifying the Role of Attachment and Social Compensation on Parasocial Relationships with Television Characters

A cross-sectional survey (N = 371) addressed inconsistent findings in previous research regarding the associations between attachment dimensions, social compensation variables (Loneliness, Need to…
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Facebook or Memory: Which Is the Real Threat to Your Relationship?

Facebook friends lists did act as memory primers for potential partners, but only for sexual partners, and the effect was stronger for men than it was for women.
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