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What drives our emotions when we watch sporting events? An ESM study on the affective experience of German spectators during the 2018 FIFA World Cup


Götz, Friedrich M. ; Stieger, Stefan ; Ebert, Tobias ; Rentfrow, Peter J. ; Lewetz, David


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.262
URL: https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/58652
Additional URL: https://online.ucpress.edu/collabra/article/6/1/15...
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-586528
Document Type: Article
Year of publication: 2020
The title of a journal, publication series: Collabra: Psychology
Volume: 6
Issue number: 1
Page range: Article 15
Place of publication: Oakland, CA
Publishing house: University of California Press
ISSN: 2474-7394
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Publication language: English
Institution: Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Mannheim Centre for European Social Research - Research Department A
Pre-existing license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Subject: 300 Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
Abstract: There is ample evidence that watching sports induces strong emotions that translate into manifold consequential behaviours. However, it is rather ill-understood how exactly spectators’ emotions unfold during soccer matches and what determines their intensity. To address these questions, we used the 2018 FIFA World Cup as a natural quasi-experiment to conduct a pre-registered study on spectators’ emotional experiences. Employing an app-based experience-sampling design, we tracked 251 German spectators during the tournament and assessed high-resolution changes in core affect (valence, activation) throughout soccer matches. Across the three German matches, multi-level models revealed that all spectators exhibited strong changes on both affective dimensions in response to Germany’s performance. Although fans experienced slightly more intense affect than non-fans, particularly during losses, this moderating effect was very small in comparison to the magnitude of the affective fluctuations that occurred independent of fan identity. Taken together, the findings suggest group emotions (collectively felt emotion irrespective of individual affiliation) rather than group-affiliation based emotions (individually felt emotion because of an affiliated group), as the dominant process underlying spectator affect during the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
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