News tagged with fictional characters
What is 'Real'? How Our Brain Differentiates Between Reality and Fantasy
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people can easily tell the difference between reality and fantasy. We know that characters in novels and movies are fictitious, and we also understand that historical figures - even if ...
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Solitude contributes to a person's imagined intimacy with a TV character
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If your best friend is a guy from "The Office" or a young doctor on "Grey's Anatomy," you may be relying too much on TV shows to fill a social void in your life.
Study suggests left-side bias in visual expertise
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Facial recognition is not as automatic as it may seem. Researchers have identified specific areas in the brain devoted solely to picking out faces among other objects we encounter. Two specific effects have been established ...
Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons dies at 61
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Dave Arneson, one of the co-creators of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy game and a pioneer of role-playing entertainment, died after a two-year battle with cancer, his family said Thursday. He was ...
Risky behaviors on TV may be modeled by inexperienced viewers
Sep 25, 2008 |
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Content analyses demonstrate that TV programming is highly saturated with sexual content and risky sexual behavior. A new study in the Journal of Communication shows that people with direct experience with such behavior are no ...
Video game minority report: Lots of players, few characters
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 29, 2009 |
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If the future of entertainment is interactive media, some minorities are still headed back to the past.
Texas Tech Librarian 'Proves' Existence of Spider-Man
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Yes, Mary Jane, there is a Spider-Man. At least, that’s what pop-culture guru and associate humanities librarian for Texas Tech University Libraries Rob Weiner set out to prove in an article published in the International Jo ...
Prof: 'Twilight' film may really bring vampires to life for some
Nov 17, 2008 |
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The upcoming "Twilight" film may not only entertain moviegoers, but it also has the potential to encourage people to really believe in vampires, says a Purdue University mass media expert.
Disney iPhone app makes photos the key to content
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Walt Disney Co. is releasing an iPhone application that rewards users for poking through the Disney.com Web site and could one day offer exclusive bonuses for activities such as shopping at Disney Stores.
D'oh! Simpsons may promote smoking: Australian researcher
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Long-running US cartoon show "The Simpsons" may inadvertently promote smoking with its frequent depictions of the habit and references to cigarettes, Australian research has found.
Multilingual web address system approved
Oct 30, 2009 |
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The nonprofit body that oversees Internet addresses approved Friday the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on Latin characters in a decision that could make the Web dramatically more ...
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