Bond Michael - Fans A Journey Into The Psychology Of Belonging - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Fans takes the reader on a journey through a constellation of fandoms and along the way demonstrates some fundamental truths about the human condition. Part behavioural study part entertainment at its heart Fans is a story of collectives of what happens to us when we interact with people who share our passions. The human brain is wired to reach out and while our groupish tendencies can bring much strife (religious intolerance racism war etc.) they are also the source of some of our greatest satisfactions. Fandoms offer much of the pleasure of tribalism with little of the harm: a feeling of belonging and of shared culture a sense of meaning and purpose improved mental well - being reassurance that our most outlandish convictions will be taken seriously and the freedom to try to emulate (and dress like) our hero. In Fans Michael Bond explores the subject through the lens of social identity theory a set of ideas used by social psychologists and anthropologists to understand how people behave in groups and why groups have such a profound effect on human culture. This should earn Bond some new fans of his own Publishers Weekly
Title: Fans A Journey Into The Psychology Of Belonging
Author(s): Bond Michael
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Barcode: 9781529052473
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 5/7/2024
Category: Social, Group Or Collective Psychology