{"id":5673,"date":"2012-08-23T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5673"},"modified":"2012-08-23T06:54:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T10:54:22","slug":"the-shadow-of-the-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-shadow-of-the-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shadow Of The Bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/082312_1016_TheShadowOf1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why are superheroes so popular with websites like, say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/tag\/batman\/\">this one<\/a>? Tom Jacobs reports on a study that may answer the question:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First participants were asked how strong an emotional connection they had with either Batman or Spiderman.<\/li>\n<li>Some were then shown a picture of that superhero looking muscular and strong.<\/li>\n<li>They then rated how they felt about their bodies. Those without a strong emotional connection to the superhero felt worse about their body, presumably because they compared their body to the idealized body of the superhero. Those who did have a strong connection, however, felt <em>better <\/em>about their body after seeing an image of the superhero, because it inspired them.<\/li>\n<li>The inspiration had concrete effects. In a strength task those who had a deep emotional connection with the heroes did better than those who didn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>This might mean that superheroes are popular today because they help men deal with body image issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find out more about the methodology of the study over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/blogs\/news-blog\/the-benefits-of-bonding-with-batman-44998\/\">here<\/a>. You&#8217;ll also find out how this ties into other work on the issue, and what implications this has.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/blogs\/news-blog\/the-benefits-of-bonding-with-batman-44998\/\">Pacific Standard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/08\/assorted-links-543.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are superheroes so popular with websites like, say, this one? Tom Jacobs reports on a study that may answer the question: First participants were asked how strong an emotional connection they had with either Batman or Spiderman. Some were then shown a picture of that superhero looking muscular and strong. They then rated how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5673","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\/2012\/08\/082312_1016_TheShadowOf1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673","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=5673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5683,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions\/5683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}