Why Are We So Attracted to Fame? (NSQ Ep. 41)

Here’s where you can learn more about the people and ideas in this episode:

SOURCES

• Eugene Fama, Nobel Prize-winning economist.
• Anuj Shah, professor of behavior science at the University of Chicago.
• Colin Camerer, professor of behavior economics at the California Institute of Technology.
• Audrey Hepburn, Academy Award-winning actress.
• Dave Brubeck, late jazz composer.
• Michael Kahana, professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Daniel Kahneman, professor of psychology at Princeton University.
• Robert Cialdini, author of Influence. 
• Martin Seligman, professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Carol Dweck, professor of psychology at Stanford University.

RESOURCES

• “Audrey Hepburn’s Favorite Song,” by Paul Rogers (The New Yorker, 2021).
• “YouTuber or Astronaut: Which Job Would You Rather Have?” (BBC, 2019).
• “Celebrity,” by Chris Rojek (The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies, 2015).
• “Motion Sickness Prevalence in School Children,” by Isadora Ferreira Henriques, Dhelfeson Willya Douglas de Oliveira, Fernanda Oliveira-Ferreira, and Peterson M. O. Andrade (European Journal of Pediatrics, 2014).
• “Navigating Into the Future or Driven by the Past,” by Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister, and Chandra Sripada (Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2013).
• “Stalker who loved Dickens,” by John Harlow (The Sunday Times, 2009).
• “Methods of Coping with Social Desirability Bias: A Review,” by Anton J. Nederhof (European Journal of Social Psychology, 1985).
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition, by Robert B. Cialdini (1984).

EXTRAS

• The New York Times Presents: Framing Britney Spears (2021).
• Freakonomics: The Movie (2010).
• Groundhog Day (1993).