Using fMRI scans on 19 lonely fans of “Game of Thrones”, researchers discovered that they processed their favorite characters similarly to real friends in their brains. This suggests that lonelier …::In lonely people, the boundary between real friends and favorite fictional characters gets blurred in the part of the brain that is active when thinking about others, a new study found.Researchers scanned the brains of people who were fans of “Game of Thrones” while they thought about various characters in the show and about their real frien…

  • @[email protected]
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    281 year ago

    Also the same one that makes conservative dipshits believe asshole politicians are on their side.

    • Obinice
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      151 year ago

      You just don’t know him like I do, man. Soon he’ll enact his big plan and fix everything!! He’s just waiting until the moment is right to sneak it all past the other side, man!