1、Would you gladly die for Robbie Williams?,or Anna Kournikova?,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,Anna Kournikova Tennis Player Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova is a Russian American retired professional tennis player. Her appearance and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide, despite her
2、 never winning a WTA singles title.,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,Robbie Williams Singer-songwriter Robert Peter “Robbie“ Williams is an English singer-songwriter, and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That, but has found greater commercial success as a solo artist,Or rob a bank if asked
3、 to by Russell Crowe?,or Shakira?,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,Russell Crowe Actor Russell Ira Crowe is a New Zealand-born Australian actor, film producer and musician. He came to international attention for his role as the Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical .,W. Jones PSYA4 Media
4、,Shakira Singer-songwriter Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, known mononymously as Shakira, is a Colombian singer-songwriter, dancer, record producer, choreographer and model who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s.,If you won 7000 rmb would you buy a toilet seat
5、 once owned by Mick Jagger?,or Demi Moore?,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,Mick Jagger Musician Sir Michael Philip “Mick“ Jagger OBE is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead vocalist and a founder member of The Rolling Stones. Jaggers career has spanned over 50 years,W. Jone
6、s PSYA4 Media,Demi Moore Actress Demi Guynes Kutcher, known professionally as Demi Moore, is an American actress, film producer, film director, former songwriter, and model,Do you lose it when Jamie Oliver twirls a pepper grinder?,or Jack Nicholson does that eyebrow thing?,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,Jamie
7、 Oliver Chef James Trevor “Jamie“ Oliver, MBE is a British chef, restaurateur, media personality, known for his food-focused television shows, cookbooks and more recently his campaign against the use of processed foods in national schools.,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,Jack Nicholson Actor John Joseph “Jack“
8、 Nicholson is a celebrated American actor, film director, producer, and writer, widely viewed as one of the best in his profession,No? Well, there are lots that do! This behaviour is called celebrity worship syndrome (CWS), an obsessive-addictive disorder, affecting males and females equally. It is
9、of growing concern to mental health professionals. One research team, headed by psychologist John Maltby of the University of Leicester, found that 36 per cent of British residents are afflicted with CWS.,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,WHAT IS A CELEBRITY ?,A celebrity is a person who has a prominent profile
10、and commands a great degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media. The term is often synonymous with wealth (commonly denoted as a person with fame and fortune), implied with great popular appeal, prominence in a particular field, and is easily recognized by the general public.,W.
11、Jones PSYA4 Media,Forbes Celebrity 100,1. Oprah Winfrey 1044 MILLION RMB 2. Michael Bay 1013 MILLION RMB 3. Steven Spielberg 820 MILLION RMB 4. Jerry Bruckheimer 729 MILLION RMB 5. Dr. Dre 697 MILLION RMB 6. Tyler Perry 660 MILLION RMB 7. Howard Stern 600 MILLION RMB 8. James Patterson 595 MILLION R
12、MB 9. George Lucas 570 MILLION RMB 10. Simon Cowell 570 MILLION RMB,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,FORBES WEALTHIEST,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,CHINESE TOP TENFORBES,Based on an individuals income and media exposure, Forbes selects outstanding celebrities in fields such as entertainment, sports, culture and media.
13、One hundred names from the Chinese mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong appeared on the 2012 list, and their combined income reached 4.32 billion yuan. The top ten of the 2012 Forbes Chinese Celebrities List are: 1 Jay Chau 2 Andy Lau 3 Fang Bingbing 4 Faye Wong 5 Li Na 6 Zhao Benshan 7 Jolin Tsai 8 Yao M
14、ing 9 Jackie Chan 10 Chiling Lin,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,W. Jones PSYA4
15、Media,TIME MAGAZINE,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,Hollywood hall of fame,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,FAMOUS CELEBRITIES,Various careers within the fields of sports and entertainment are commonly associated with celebrity status. These fields have produced prominent figures within these two industries.,W. Jones PSYA
16、4 Media,KOBI BRYAN,Professional athletes such as Kobe Bryant (above) who play for various sports teams are one of the most sought after careers in the world.,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,PARIS HILTON,American socialite Paris Hilton is a celebrity who is believed to typify the modern “famous for being famous
17、“ paradigm.,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,PRESIDENT OBAMA,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,ANGELINA JOLI,Angelina Jolie is an American actress and film director. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywoods highest-paid actress by Forbes in 20
18、09 and 2011,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,DAVID BECKHAM,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,Ass.,David Robert Joseph Beckham, OBE is an English footballer who currently plays for French Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain,TYRA BANKS,Tyra Banks, model, author and television personality.,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,CHINESE CELEBRITIES
19、,Jay Chou is a Taiwanese musician, singer, songwriter, music and film producer, actor and director. In 1998 he was discovered in a talent contest where he displayed his piano and song-writing skills,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,ANDY LAU,Andy Lau Tak-wah MH, JP is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer, actor, presente
20、r and film producer. Lau has been one of Hong Kongs most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,FAN BINGBING,Fan Bingbing is a Chinese actress, singer and producer. She was born in Qingdao, Shandong, and raised in Yantai, Shandong. She graduated from Shanghai Xi
21、e Jins Star School and Shanghai Theatre Academy.,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,FAYE WONG,Faye Wong is an Chinese singer-songwriter and actress who is usually referred to as a diva. Early in her career she briefly used the stage name Shirley Wong.,y,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,W. Jones PSYA4 Med
22、ia,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,ROYAL FAMILY,The British Royal Family is the group of close relatives of the monarch of the United Kingdom.,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,SCIENTIST,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a
23、prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood.,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,CELEBRITY WORSHIP SYNDROME,Celebrity worship syndrome is an obsessive-addictive disorder in which a person becomes overly involved with the details of a celebrit
24、ys personal life,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,CELEBRITY WORSHIP SYNDROME,The term celebrity worship syndrome (CWS) first appeared in an article Do you worship the celebs? by James Chapman in the Daily Mail in 2003 (Chapman, 2003).12. A syndrome refers to a set of abnormal or unusual set of symptoms indicati
25、ng the existence of an undesirable condition or quality. Indeed many attitudes and behaviours covered in this research indicate such states.3,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,CELEBRITY WORSHIP SCALE,Psychologists in the United States and United Kingdom created a celebrity worship scale to rate the problems. Res
26、earch among UK samples have suggested there are 3 different aspects to celebrity worship;5 John Maltby (University of Leicester), and Lynn McCutcheon, Rense Lange, and James Houran USA psychologists examined the Celebrity Attitude Scale among 1732 United Kingdom respondents (781 males, 942 females)
27、who were aged between 14 and 62 years and found the following 3 dimensions to celebrity worship: entertainment-social, intense-personal, and borderline-pathological.,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,Example from the cws questionnaire,Do you have Celebrity Worship Syndrome?Say yes to the following and you may ha
28、ve low-level CWS: My friends and I like to discuss what my favourite celebrity has done. I enjoy watching my favourite celebrity. Learning the life story of my favourite celebrity is a lot of fun.Agree with these more intense feelings and you may have a moderate case: I consider my favourite celebri
29、ty to be my soul mate. I have a special bond with my celebrity. I have frequent thoughts about my celebrity, even when I dont want to.Agree with these and you may be obsessed, borderline pathological and suffering seriously from CWS: If someone gave me several thousand pounds to do with as I please,
30、 I would consider spending it on a personal possession, like a napkin or paper plate, once used by my favourite celebrity. If I were lucky enough to meet my favourite celebrity, and they asked me to do something illegal as a favour I would probably do it. I would be very upset if my favourite celebr
31、ity got married.,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,The three classifications,Entertainment-social This dimension comprises attitudes of fans that are attracted to their favourite celebrity because of their ability to entertain and become a social focus. Examples of their attitude would include: “I love to talk w
32、ith others who admire my favourite celebrity” and “I like watching and hearing about my favourite celebrity when I am with a large group of people”.,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,INTENSE PERSONAL,Intense-personal aspect of celebrity worship reflects intensive and compulsive feelings about the celebrity, akin
33、 to the obsessional tendencies of fans often referred to in the literature; for example “I share with my favoUrite celebrity a special bond that cannot be described in words” and “When something bad happens to my favoUrite celebrity I feel like it happened to me”,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,BORDERLINE PATH
34、OLOGICAL,edit Borderline-pathological This dimension is typified by uncontrollable behaviours and fantasies regarding scenarios involving their celebrities, such as “I have frequent thoughts about my favourite celebrity, even when I dont want to” and “My favourite celebrity would immediately come to
35、 my rescue if I needed any type of help”.,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,STALKING,Madonna Madonnas heavily-fortified London mansion was invaded by a stalker while she was in the U.S. at her grandmothers funeral, police said on March 14. Grzegorz Matlok, who police say is obsessed with the Material Girl, got a
36、round the performers high-tech security and state-of-the-art alarm system by simply smashing in a side window, cops said. Matlok was rooting through Madonnas stuff when Madges bodyguards finally realized he was inside the 10-bedroom,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,Madonna A retired New York firefighter carryin
37、g a home-made 7 1/2-inch ice pick was arrested in August 2010, outside Madonnas Manhattan crash pad. I wont stop until I actually meet Madonna, Robert Linhart said as cops slapped the cuffs on him. I am going to go right back there and do it again. Linhart had been arrested at the Central Park West
38、building a few days earlier while blasting Madonna hits over his car stereo.,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,After watching “Taxi Driver,“ Hinckley Jr. became obsessed with Jodie Foster. He enrolled in Yale when she was a student there so he could stalk her, and decided the best way to get her to love him was
39、to assassinate president Reagan (which he officially attempted to do in March of 1981). He was tried in 1982 for 13 offenses but was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was confined to St. Elizabeths Hospital in D.C., where he remains to this day.,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,with Michael Douglas, Ca
40、therine Zeta-Jones quickly became Knights rival. She spent 2003 and 2004 sending alarming letters to Douglas and Jones, where she stated her intentions to cut up Zeta Jones and feed her to dogs. Additionally, Knight maintained she had been having an affair with Douglas but she pleaded no contest to
41、charges of stalking and was sentenced to 3 years in prison.,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,When celebrity worship turns deadly,Canadian pop star Justin Bieber was one of the targets of an alleged murder plot, police say. Convicted killer Dana Martin, who was infatuated with Bieber, told police he hired two hi
42、tmen to kill the singer and three other victims. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/Associated Press),W. Jones PSYA4 Media,SUICIDE,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,young female fan of Hong Kong star Andy Lau has recently experienced both the highest and lowest points in her life. After finally receiving the chance to mee
43、t her long-time idol, she also received word of her fathers death. There has been a public outcry of anger towards the girl, particularly from Chinese netizens. She returned to the mainland Wednesday night with her mother, but refused to claim her fathers body.A,Yang Qinji from Chinas northwestern c
44、ity Lanzhou, is rushed to hospital after he drowned himself in the sea following his declined request by Hong Kong singer Andy Lau of a personal engagement with his daughter Yang Lijuan, a fanatical fan of Andy, in Hong Kong, March 28, 2007. Yang Lijuan has been seeking close contact with Andy for o
45、ver a decade, flying across China to see his show, and her family have spent all they own to fund the womans far-flung pursuit of the singer.,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,.,SUICIDE,Michael Jackson Fan Suicides g Has the cult of celebrity worship gone too far?A few Michael Jackson fans around the world commi
46、ted suicide after being devastated by the pop singers death. A UK media outlet Sky News quoted the president of MJJCommunity, one of the worlds largest Michael Jackson fan sites based in the UK, saying a total of (at least) 12 suicides occurred, one involving a Briton. EO mentions a Michael Jackson
47、impersonator in Russia who attempted suicide (but was not successful) and The Barcelona Reporter claims a young girl in Tunisia was the first fan to commit suicide. The news that saddened fans are willing to die for/because of a celebrity they have never met is disturbing, but also a strangely warpe
48、d Messianic gesture. Though Im not equating Michael to Jesus, it is curious to note that just as Jesus followers are willing to die for him, Jacksons followers are also willing to die because of him. When the number of suicides was originally reported as seven, Jesse Jackson also gave a brief messag
49、e encouraging Michael Jackson fans to “celebrate Michaels life by creating futures not funerals.” He goes on to say, “To make Michael happydont accept the struggle, dont give up and surrenderThats the right thing to do. Just live togetherand not die apart. Through all of this, keep hope alive.”,W. J
50、ones PSYA4 Media,The question is,What causes Celebrity Worship?,W. Jones PSYA4 Media,Unlikely obsessions While many people were obsessed with glamorous film and pop stars, such as George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, others had unlikely objects of affection, including Tony Blair and Mo Mowlam. One the
51、ory is that in a society dominated by TV and with a decline in extended families and communities, celebrities have taken the place of relatives, neighbours and friends for many people. Respect for family members has been replaced by the worship of the famous. Dr John Maltby, said: “Our findings suggest the possibility that many people do not engage in celebrity worship for mere entertainment. “Rather, there appears to be a clear clinical component to attitudes and behaviours associated with celebrity worshipping.“,
