Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson Reportedly Back Together. Why Do Some Celebrity Couples Matter More?

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Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are finally being taken seriously--though less as actors, and more as romantic partners. An unconfirmed report from The Sun proclaimed the couple reunited--and everyone from the Atlantic to the New York Daily News picked up on it.

For serious Twilight fans, it's life-altering. But why are the rest of paying attention? Numerous psychological studies have suggested that famous

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Photo by: Getty Images

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are finally being taken seriously--though less as actors, and more as romantic partners. An unconfirmed report from The Sun proclaimed the couple reunited--and everyone from the Atlantic to the New York Daily News picked up on it.

For serious Twilight fans, it's life-altering. But why are the rest of paying attention? Numerous psychological studies have suggested that famous people are an idealized reflection of ourselves, so when a couple breaks up, we internalize their drama. That's a very teenager-y thing to do, and more than ever we're regressing. Culture critic, Erica Harrison, blames our new world of media saturation and internet isolation for phenomenon. "Perhaps fantasy relationships are becoming easier to form than real ones," Harrison writes in an essay for Cosmopolitan. Still it takes a special type of famous couple (or their

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