Gayle Stever
- Professor
- Rochester
- gayle.stever@sunyempire.edu
Gayle S. Stever, Ph.D. is a professor of psychology for Empire State College/State University of New York. She has published numerous articles on parasocial theory, with particular focus on parasocial attachment in journals like Journal of Adult Development, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Media Psychology, and Communication Theory. Her most cited work is, "Twitter as a way for celebrities to communicate with fans: Implications for the study of parasocial interaction" in the North American Journal of Psychology. She won the Susan H. Turben Award for Excellence in Scholarship in 2017 from Empire State College. In 2019 she published her first book, The Psychology of Celebrity.