The Evolutionary Significance of Red Sox Nation: Sport Fandom as a Byproduct of Coalitional Psychology
Sport fandom has received considerable attention from social scientists, yet few have considered it from an evolutionary perspective. To redress this gap, we develop the hypothesis that team sports exhibit characteristics that activate mechanisms which evolved to facilitate the development of coalit...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2010-07-01
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| Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491000800310 |