@article{ref1,
title="Death, attractiveness, moral conduct, and attitudes to public figures",
journal="OMEGA - Journal of death and dying",
year="2010",
author="North, Adrian C. and Sheridan, Lorraine P.",
volume="60",
number="4",
pages="351-363",
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 &quot;intense personal&quot; celebrity worship, and death was unrelated to &quot;borderline pathological&quot; and &quot;deleterious imitation&quot; celebrity worship. Physical attractiveness was positively related to overall celebrity worship and &quot;intense personal&quot; celebrity worship, but negatively related to &quot;borderline pathological&quot; and &quot;deleterious imitation&quot; celebrity worship. Moral conduct was associated negatively with &quot;deleterious imitation&quot; celebrity worship. Results are discussed briefly in terms of their implications for research on physical attractiveness and &quot;copycat suicide&quot;.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0030-2228",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}