<div dir="ltr">"Psychology has often supported a 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/">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.
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The authors of <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0142200">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.
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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."</p><p class="gmail-body">What do you think?</p><p class="gmail-body"><a href="https://getpocket.com/explore/item/fan-of-sci-fi-psychologists-have-you-in-their-sights?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB">https://getpocket.com/explore/item/fan-of-sci-fi-psychologists-have-you-in-their-sights?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB</a></p>
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