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The idea that fandom is connected to maladaptive development or cognitive deficits seems to underlie psychological studies on celebrity adoration. These studies often describe fandom as celebrity worship and offer hypotheses that seem to be at least in part based on stereotypes. I review the psychological study of fandom that is based on the idea of three types of celebrity adoration between which the adoration ranges from what is perceived as harmless to such that can be described as pathological. I review results that both support and contradict the suggested model and finally, ask if celebrity adoration should be perceived as a personality based coping mechanism rather than a maladaptive state. Celebrity adoration would seem to entail both a cognitive component and lower psychological well-being. In addition, both personality and personality based coping mechanisms are associated with celebrity adoration. I suggest that one explanation to celebrity adoration could be found from personality and psychological well-being. In this context celebrity adoration could be understood as a personality based coping mechanism that is facilitated by stress-related cognitive deficits.