Attributions of Highly Identified Sports Spectators
- 1 December 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in The Journal of Social Psychology
- Vol. 134 (6), 783-792
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.1994.9923013
Abstract
Previous research examining the tendency for sports spectators to internalize team successes while externalizing team failures has been inconsistent. Several studies have found support for this success/failure attributional bias, but others have not. The current study tested the hypothesis 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. The results of a study testing 90 basketball fans varying in degree of identification supported the hypothesis.Keywords
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