Meeting a famous person triggers measurable physical and emotional responses

Evidence

Nor can the physical sensation caused by meeting celebrities—feeling “starstruck”—be denied, except by the most jaded. You might think back to a moment when you saw or met a very famous person, and remember that you began to feel your heart beat faster, that urge to take a picture, the sense that this moment was somehow important. Time can seem to stand still; it can feel like breaking through, momentarily, to what seems a slightly different realm. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 769

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Proximity to a celebrity can confer fame onto otherwise unknown people. — Alice E. Marwick, Instafame: Luxury Selfies in the…, 53; Physical proximity amplifies mass nervous excitation toward its most passionate member — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 3110
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Proximity to a celebrity can confer fame onto otherwise unknown people. — Alice E. Marwick, Instafame: Luxury Selfies in the…, 53; Physical proximity amplifies mass nervous excitation toward its most passionate member — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 3110

Broader Connections

• Proximity to a celebrity can confer fame onto otherwise unknown people. #complicates (0.72) — Alice E. Marwick, Instafame, 53