Flutterby™! : Celebrity worship & intelligence

I can just feel the confirmation bias as I type this: People who are obsessed with celebrities tend to score lower on measures of cognitive ability

“Interest in the topic of celebrity worshipers spans almost two decades. From several studies, over that period, research showed a weak to moderate tendency for those who showed the strongest admiration for their favorite celebrity to have lower cognitive skills, using a variety of cognitive measures,” explained study authors Lynn E. McCutcheon, Ágnes Zsila, and Zsolt Demetrovics in a joint statement to PsyPost.

BMC Psychology: Celebrity worship and cognitive skills revisited: applying Cattell’s two-factor theory of intelligence in a cross-sectional study Lynn E. McCutcheon, Ágnes Zsila & Zsolt Demetrovics.