A study or paper · 1980 · Research
The finale study
Academic work measuring grief responses to soap opera finales and finding the same markers as bereavement.
The first hard evidence that a fictional ending produces a real grief response, and the research that was ignored for forty years by a field that had assumed otherwise.
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