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Solitude contributes to a person’s imagined intimacy with a TV character

If your best friend is a guy from “The Office” or a young doctor on “Grey's Anatomy,” you may be relying too much on TV shows to fill a social void in your life. A new study from the University of Michigan says lonely people may use television characters to cope with solitude and to feel a sense of belonging.

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Solitude contributes to a person’s imagined intimacy with a TV character