Self-esteem of sports fans is linked to their team, research shows

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Research shows that when a favorite team wins or loses, it changes how fans dress and even how they talk about their team.

If their team wins, fans wear team colors the following day and brag about how “we” won the day, a behavior researchers have dubbed “basking in reflected glory,” or BIRGing.

Conversely, a loss significantly reduced the odds of wearing team apparel by more than half and reduced the odds of wearing two or more articles of team clothing by over 70 percent.These findings tally with the original study, Jensen said. Sports fans “choose to wear the apparel to signal to members of both the in-group and out-group which team they’re affiliated with, and they’re doing so to boost their own self-esteem,” he said.

In contrast, the fans used pronouns such as “they,” “them” and “their” when England trailed or lost. Interestingly, fans still BIRGed when their team was ultimately defeated by Croatia, probably because the team still made it to the semifinals — an accomplishment for England in the World Cup. collected the saliva of 21 male fans watching the 1994 televised World Cup soccer match between Brazil and Italy to measure their testosterone levels before and after the match.After Brazil won the match on a penalty kick, their fans’ testosterone increased, while the testosterone of the losing Italian team fans decreased.

 

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Is that why New England football fans are so kind?

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Hard to believe you have to lay off 500 people

Wonder how much thats influenced by betting money.

If you guys aren't publishing pure propaganda, you're publishing the completely obvous. And you're still likely confused about why your readership is plummeting.

Reeeeaaallllyyy? Does winning change how fans talk about a team? Omg! Who would have EVER thought! What is this article? Seriously.

Is this bradneely ?

What happens to readers of fake news?

How half the city of Cleveland hasn’t reported suicidal tendencies by now is beyond me if this is even remotely accurate.

🧵1/2 These behaviors are all interconnected, and they all have to do with self-esteem, said Jonathan Jensen , associate professor of sport administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.They surreptitiously monitored with approval of the institutional review

It took me years to disassociate myself from the teams that I follow. The realization that the odds that they were going to win a season championship finally sunk in.

Wow, breaking news

Whither vagina hats?

Masks for journalist

no shit, Sherlock

Excuse me, I'm a Cubs fan & I have a healthy self-esteem, thank you very much.

I'm not sure if you're talking about sports fans or politicians, but either way, I think the saying goes, 'If you can't take the heat, get out of the game.'

Interesting

A's fans unite!😭😭🫶

Finally figured that out, eh Sherlock?

Sad people...

Yikes I’m a Broncos, Rockies, and Colorado football fan. It’s been a rough few years 😂

ya we know

Unfortunately they must not have had much of a good self image or self respect. Must not have much of a life either

This is the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen. WHO WOULDA THOUGHT

…and there’s nothing wrong about it. Just let people live their lives the way they want, freaks.

Lmao I'm a Rockies fan, if my self esteem was linked to the team I would've been dead 25 years ago

Learn to not give a crap. Self-esteem will soar.

And water is wet

LGM

Wow, check on your Mets fans friends. We are in a perpetual state of not ok.

That makes us, Minnesota Vikings fans, the lowest of the lowly

Jokes on you, I cheer for the Cowboys, Yankees, French National Soccer Team, Lakers, Red Wings, Real Madrid, and Harlem Globetrotters. I never lose.

Should your self-evaluation be determined by how someone other than yourself is doing?

That's why you have so many bandwagon fans. Makes sense.

Illegal migrants are sleeping on the streets of El Paso, Texas by the thousands. But, this.

This is commercially promoted tribalism, meant to sell you licensed products, beer and pickup trucks.

You needed to research that? hahahaha.

Are you guys taking sociology 101? You're way behind the rest of the class on this.

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File under ‘water is wet’, I guess?

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Deep textural reporting....

Someone used it as the research topic for their degree. It replicates a study performed 40 years ago to see if behaviors have changed. No big deal. This is not an oddity for this to be done.

Things aren’t going good

Not politically. Look at all the Trump cultists still waving flags and wearing Trump cult merch.

I bet when the talk about a team that lost they say it lost and when they talk about a team what won they say it won huh?

It took a whole research to figure this out?

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Wow such earth shattering news. Not.

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