Only fifteen minutes of fame? Not so

Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 09:30 in Psychology & Sociology

True fame isn’t fleeting, according to new research. They studied all the names mentioned in over 2,000 English-language newspapers from the U.S., Canada and the U.K. over a period of several decades. What they found was that, contrary to popular belief (and scholarly research up to now), the people who become truly famous stay famous for decades.

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