Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Kanye West, Orlando Bloom. These are names recognized in most families around the world. Many people love to follow their favorite celebrities, but in some cases things might be taken too far. Throughout history, fans have taken their obsession with famous people to an extreme and dangerous level. From John Lennon's murder to Kylie Jenner's lip challenge, people can be seen causing harm to themselves and other people due to an unhealthy obsession with celebrities and their desire to follow fandom. While many people worship celebrities and closely follow their lifestyle, through social pressure and idolization of celebrities as authority figures, this fandom can lead to each of these levels is caused by many different aspects of personality and external influences and they can have a wide range of outcomes both good and bad. Just as before the experiments of Philip Zimbardo and Stanley Milgram, there is little statistical data to define the exact causes of celebrity worship, however scientists have developed many theories. One of the most popular ideas is that celebrity worshipers seek identity in celebrities. Psychologists Lynn McCutcheon and James Houran believe this theory to be true and have developed a model to demonstrate this idea. They believe that people use celebrities to fill holes and address problems in their lives and “that people should tend to be interested in celebrities at times when they are looking for direction in life” (Douglas). This is similar to Crispin Sartwell's idea that people are capable of doing evil things when told to do so by an authority figure as "deference to authority" because celebrity worshipers may see celebrities as authority figures just as the people who committed acts. of the genocide they follow people they consider authoritative figures. Because psychologists believe that “[being a fan of] a celebrity doesn't make you dysfunctional, but it puts you at risk of being so. There is this progression of behaviors and if you start we don't know what will stop you” (Douglas). Many experiments have been conducted to find out exactly who is at risk of reaching the dysfunctional level, however they all found that “CWS [Celebrity Worship Syndrome] affects people of all ages and both genders.” Psychologists may eventually be able to pinpoint the exact type of person who might go mad in their obsession with a celebrity, but at the moment they believe that everyone is susceptible just as they believe Szegedy-Maszak's suggestion that all people have the potential for torture. It is believed that anyone alive is capable of doing extreme things that can cause them regret and trauma for years to come, whether they are as current as celebrity worship or as ancient as the brutality of war, however, the reasons have not yet been made clear.