Why do people fall in love with celebrities?

“When we form a parasocial bond with someone, we feel like we really know them,” Gabriel said. “We know logically that we don’t, but our primitive brain doesn’t realize that so the feeling is real.”

Why humans form these relationships is a layered story. For one, our tendency to form social connections as a means of survival is well noted — researchers agree on the theory that we have a primitive mechanism that pushes us to form close bonds with people.