{"name": "Courtney Plante", "key": "/authors/OL7664484A", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "remote_ids": {"wikidata": "Q114431173", "amazon": "B0DBHQLM7L"}, "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Courtney, or Nuka, as he\u2019s known by his friends and fellow furries, is a social psychologist who graduated with a PhD in 2014 from the University of Waterloo and who is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology at Bishop\u2019s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. He\u2019s been a furry \u201cofficially\u201d for more than 15 years, although his interest in furry media goes back even longer than that. Nuka\u2019s research interests include stigma, group identity, and fantasy and how all of these processes operate in the context of fan cultures, including furries, bronies, anime fans, and Star Wars fans. He also studies the impacts of media more broadly on the way we think, feel, and behave.\u2013Author Biography in *Furscience: A Decade of Psychological Research on the Furry Fandom*."}, "alternate_names": ["Courtney N. Plante", "Nuka Plante", "Courtney \"Nuka\" Plante"], "links": [{"title": "WikiFur Article", "url": "https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Courtney_%22Nuka%22_Plante", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Furscience Biography", "url": "https://furscience.com/dr-courtney-nuka-plante/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-10-10T22:25:51.786451"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-12-04T04:10:21.415072"}}