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<blockquote data-quote="MovingForward2050" data-source="post: 1380983" data-attributes="member: 18126">Fan of Sci-Fi? Psychologists Have You in Their Sights[ATTACH=full]26192[/ATTACH]&quot;Psychology has often supported this dismissal of the genre. The most recent psychological accusation against science fiction is the “<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4651513/" target="_blank">great fantasy migration hypothesis</a>.” This supposes that the real world of unemployment and debt is too disappointing for a generation of entitled narcissists. They consequently migrate to a land of make-believe where they can live out their grandiose fantasies.The authors of <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0142200" target="_blank">a 2015 study</a> stress that, while they have found evidence to confirm this hypothesis, such psychological profiling of “geeks” is not intended to be stigmatising. Fantasy migration is “adaptive” – dressing up as Princess Leia or Darth Vader makes science fiction fans happy and keeps them out of trouble.But, while psychology may not exactly diagnose fans as mentally ill, the insinuation remains – science fiction evades, rather than confronts, disappointment with the real world.&quot;What do you think?[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://getpocket.com/explore/item/fan-of-sci-fi-psychologists-have-you-in-their-sights?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MovingForward2050, post: 1380983, member: 18126"] [SIZE=7][B]Fan of Sci-Fi? Psychologists Have You in Their Sights[/B][/SIZE] [ATTACH type="full"]26192[/ATTACH] "Psychology has often supported this dismissal of the genre. The most recent psychological accusation against science fiction is the “[URL='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4651513/']great fantasy migration hypothesis[/URL].” This supposes that the real world of unemployment and debt is too disappointing for a generation of entitled narcissists. They consequently migrate to a land of make-believe where they can live out their grandiose fantasies. The authors of [URL='https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0142200']a 2015 study[/URL] stress that, while they have found evidence to confirm this hypothesis, such psychological profiling of “geeks” is not intended to be stigmatising. Fantasy migration is “adaptive” – dressing up as Princess Leia or Darth Vader makes science fiction fans happy and keeps them out of trouble. But, while psychology may not exactly diagnose fans as mentally ill, the insinuation remains – science fiction evades, rather than confronts, disappointment with the real world." What do you think? [URL unfurl="true"]https://getpocket.com/explore/item/fan-of-sci-fi-psychologists-have-you-in-their-sights?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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