Thread:Vimitsu/@comment-25308539-20140922155639/@comment-25308539-20140923034748

The user in question is User:Chris-ON!!, whose new uploads are all under Special:NewFiles, with the majority of them being minor characters, but the one's I'm really irked at are for Ritsu, Mugi, and Mio (I don't know how to link to images directly without them showing up in the post, but the offending images are the first seen on the page).

Well, I know you're busy, and I don't want to waste too much of your time, so I'll try to keep the rest of this brief. First off, of course it's unrealistic to expect professional-grade material from someone not yet completely entrenched in academia, but what I can appreciate is the commitment to a scientific method of one's writing being validated by existing evidence, rather than being pure bollocks.

The whole tsundere-attachment style thing is just a suggestion as it stands Essentially, there are two types of insecure styles ambivalent being a push-pull mentality, and avoidant being a full push, both of which are relevant. The research I opened up was perhaps trying to find the underlying attractive qualities behind these styles, when it's been established that secure styles of attachment are the most attractive - but since neither of us have the skill of time to delve further into it, let's shelve it for now. Likewise, the article's mention of flattery is too ambiguous to apply to an anime setting where the viewer doesn't get flattered themselves directly.

I've just come out of a couple weeks' slogfest of work, so now I've got ample time to have a crack at writing my own material. And it might not look like I'm giving you a break of anime psychology, but I'll just leave the rest of this here as a reference for you to respond to in your own time. Having only been watching anime for less than a year, and with only a select few under my belt, I didn't know many of the conventions surrounding how people engage with this new media. I found that there are a lot of stigmas and taboos - places people just don't go and that this taboo extended into the psychology I was studying.

Looooooooooong story short: Waifus. Or at least the misconception that people who openly identified as having a waifu were quickly and brutally shot down as sad, lonely, and degenerate for building a relationship with fictional or imaginary characters. In the world of psych, I found that of course, waifuism itself has not been studied, but it could be an extension of imaginary relationships as a whole. Children can have imaginary friends, widows and widowers can still maintain relationships with their deceased spouses, people have spiritual relationships with religious figures, and my research has focused on how some people can form imaginary relationships with media figures.

I think I'll explain more when I get my blog up and active, but for the most part, everyone I've talked to who's opened up to me about having a waifu just doesn't like the labels associated with it. In the psych papers I've read, most researchers even start with a 'deficiency hypothesis' that claims that people who engage in these imaginary relationships must have a social deficit like loneliness, low self esteem, or a lack of social skills - all of which their had been refuted in their own studies.

And now I'm rambling, so I'll stop now.