Viewers adopt behaviors from long-term characters they grow to adore

Evidence

Hundreds of episodes spanning several years allow listeners and viewers to form strong emotional bonds with the cast-member models, whose thinking and behavior evolve at a believable pace, inspiring and enabling viewers to improve their own lives. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2807

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2807
• XREF: connects to: Fictional characters can become genuine models for perseverance in real life; Observed consequences of modeled behavior drive viewers to adopt it — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2830; Social modeling via serial dramas can drive large-scale behavior change (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Fictional characters can become genuine models for perseverance in real life; Observed consequences of modeled behavior drive viewers to adopt it — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2830; Social modeling via serial dramas can drive large-scale behavior change (+3 more)