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This is your bonus segment with Jennifer Lynn Barnes.

And, you know, we just finished up the main segment, and she mentioned her Instagram account.

And if you check it out, you'll see she has just an enormous amount of very enthusiastic fans. So that seems

like a great place to start to talk about. Jennifer, what's known about the psychology of fandom

and how have you incorporated that into your books? You know, when I was first getting into studying

the psychology of fandom, it's a very new area of study within psychology.

Granted, I've been gone from academia for about three years. When I left, there was some very

exciting work being done. But a lot of the early work that was very inspirational for me

wasn't just from psychology, but it was from like sociology, anthropology, where people were actually like describing

the phenomena that were going on. So like, here's the 12 different kinds of fan fiction

stories that you tend to see, just as an example. But one thing I did that ended up being

very influential for me is at one point I was like,

okay, I want to see if I can pinpoint certain things that a lot of big fandom enabling

media properties seem like they have in common.

So to get my initial data set, I went to fanfiction.net and

clicked on TV shows. And I wanted to see what were the top 20 shows for which the most

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