Connor Leshner
speaker
130 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 18 Feb
Connor Leshner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You'd never have a relationship with Bruce Springsteen.
Exactly.
And like, I mean, we've seen a huge move with Swifties in the last couple years where it's become such a big thing.
A lot of people think that they know, you know, Taylor Swift or any any musician.
And I would argue that the relationships that people have with those people, just because they exist in some plane of reality, you'll never, you're likely to never meet these people.
And as a result, it's important to consider that these fictional characters in these fictional relationships are not that much different.
Hi, David.
Thank you so much for having me.
I'm really excited to be here.
Yeah, absolutely.
So many of your listeners are probably somewhat familiar.
They've maybe heard of something like anime, cartoons, anything like that.
And anime fans, who are people who obviously watch this a lot, some of them will have these characters who they feel like a strong affinity for platonic, romantic love for these characters.
And they'll call them either waifus and husbandos.
And the way we define this in the research is we call them, if a character exists, you would want to have a relationship.
Yeah.
So I think it's really fascinating that the way we feel toward fictional characters tends to match the way we feel towards real life people.
So men are more attracted to physical traits, women are more attracted to the personality.
And that's what we see when it's human to human connection as well.
Now, do I feel depressed, upset, anxious, terrified of it?
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