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Preliminary validation of the sport fan motivation scale.
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The factors believed to be motivations responsible for sport fandom include eustress, self-esteem, escape, entertainment, economic, aesthetic, group affiliation, and family needs as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
Factors believed to be motivations responsible for sport fandom include eustress, self-esteem, escape, entertainment, economic, aesthetic, group affiliation, and family needs. However, these factor...read more
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Basking in Reflected Glory: Three (Football) Field Studies
Robert B. Cialdini,Richard Borden,Avril Thorne,Marcus Randall Walker,Stephen Freeman,Lloyd R. Sloan +5 more
TL;DR: The tendency to "bask in reflected glory" (BIRG) by publicly announcing one's associations with successful others was investigated in three field experiments as mentioned in this paper, showing that the tendency to bask in the glory of a successful source was not involved in the cause of the source's success.
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The positive social and self concept consequences of sports team identification.
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Role of Identification with a Group, Arousal, Categorization Processes, and Self-Esteem in Sports Spectator Aggression:
TL;DR: In this paper, a new viewpoint was proposed to account for the occurrence of spectator aggression, including the motivational aspects of team or group identification, the cognitive component of categorization, and the esteem-enhancing consequences of aggressive behavior.
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Attributions of Highly Identified Sports Spectators
Daniel L. Wann,Thomas J. Dolan +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that the success/failure bias would be found among American spectators who were high in identification with a target team but that spectators low in identification would be only minimally biased in their attributions concerning competition outcome.
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