Book Review: Celebrity Worshippers: Inside the Minds of Stargazers, by L.E. McCutcheon, J. Maltby, J. Houran and D.D. Ashe. Publish America, 2004. 189pp., £15.50. ISBN-10: 1413732305.

Authors

  • William J.F. Keenan Liverpool Hope University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.v14i4.493

Keywords:

attachment, erotomania, fame, psychology, Implicit Religion

References

Carlyle, T. 1841. On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History. London: James Fraser.

Crumbaugh, J. 1968. “Purpose in Life Test.” Journal of Individual Psychology 24: 74–81.

Francis, L.J., L.B. Brown and R. Philipchalk. 1992. “The Development of an Abbreviated Form of the Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (Epqr-A). Its Use Among Students in England, Canada, the USA, and Australia.” Personality and Individual Differences 13: 443–449.

Hendrick, C.S.S. Hendrick and A. Dicke. 1998. “The Love Attitudes Scale: Short Form.” Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 15: 147–159.

Maltby, J., J. Houran and L.E. McCutcheon. 2003. “A Clinical Interpretation of Attitudes and Behaviors Associated with Celebrity Worship.” Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 191: 25–29.

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Published

2011-12-29

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 4 (2011)

Section

Book Reviews

How to Cite

Keenan, W. J. (2011). Book Review: Celebrity Worshippers: Inside the Minds of Stargazers, by L.E. McCutcheon, J. Maltby, J. Houran and D.D. Ashe. Publish America, 2004. 189pp., £15.50. ISBN-10: 1413732305. Implicit Religion, 14(4), 493-498. https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.v14i4.493