Mark Schaller's Study About Fame

Part I of Essay
For many people fame has lead to physical and psychological self-destruction. The physical aspect of the self-destruction is usually brought upon by drug and/or alcohol abuse. The psychological destruction is not so easily accompanied with a reason. The result, however, is ....

Part II of Essay
.... in 1978. The reason Schaller chose these three people is that they all had self- destructive tendencies in the forms of drugs and alcohol and also had psychological problems sometime during their period of fame. Each of the three were also writers which was a vital part of Schaller's study. Schaller wanted to show that fame increased the self-consciousness in each of these people. To do this he analyzed the songs and stories written by these authors and found an increase in the amount of first-person singular pronouns from before to after ....