Your Attachment Style IRL Guides the Kinds of Fictional Characters You Gravitate TowardTop of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 1711, Segment 5
Oct 18, 2021 • 19m
Can you think of a TV or film character you really relate to? Or maybe there’s one who feels like a close friend? It’s interesting how invested we can become in stories told really well. For some people, these relationships with fictional characters become particularly intense –to the point of even standing in for a real-life relationship. Marina Rain studies how and why this happens. She’s a behavioral scientist at the Research Strategy Group in Toronto. (Segment produced by Keeley Gibson.)

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