{"id":13369,"date":"2015-12-04T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13369"},"modified":"2015-12-04T08:17:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T13:17:26","slug":"why-survivor-is-still-on-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/why-survivor-is-still-on-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Survivor Is Still On The Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120415_1313_WhySurvivor1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reality TV show survivor first aired when Bill Clinton was still in office. More than a decade later the show still draws large audiences. David Shultz tried to understand why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A psychologist found that those who enjoy reality TV are motivated by status and vengeance.<\/li>\n<li>In the case of Survivor, the status part comes from watching ordinary people suddenly become elevated.<\/li>\n<li>Survivor also requires people to work with and against one another for an ultimate victor to emerge. This is where vengeance comes in.<\/li>\n<li>The popularity of this social strategy game is driven in part by Survivor seeming more authentic than most other &#8220;reality&#8221; TV.<\/li>\n<li>Anecdotal evidence indicates that those who watch Survivor are those who think they would win the game.<\/li>\n<li>Given that 9 million people still watch it \u2013 making it consistently the #1 show in its time slot \u2013 there are a lot of social strategists out there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/blog\/why-is-survivor-still-on-television\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/blog\/why-is-survivor-still-on-television\">Nautilus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reality TV show survivor first aired when Bill Clinton was still in office. More than a decade later the show still draws large audiences. David Shultz tried to understand why: A psychologist found that those who enjoy reality TV are motivated by status and vengeance. In the case of Survivor, the status part comes from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120415_1313_WhySurvivor1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13372,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369\/revisions\/13372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}