Transforming Celebrity Objects: Implications for an Account of Psychological Contagion
The celebrity effect is the well-documented phenomenon in which people ascribe an enhanced worth to artefacts owned by famous individuals. This effect has been attributed to a belief in psychological contagion, the transmission of a person’s essence to an object via contact. We examined people’s jud...
| Published in: | Journal of cognition and culture |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Journal of cognition and culture
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| Further subjects: | B
artefact
celebrity object
identity
persistence
psychological contagion
value
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