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Interesting take. It would tend to account for the curious lapses of rationality on both sides, even among usually highly rational people in their own fields.How did American politics get to this point?As sports communication researchers who have written extensively on the vast and powerful influence of identity on attitudes and behavior, we believe our work can offer some ways to understand recent events....Administering a questionnaire that's used by sport communication researchers, we were able to show "team identification" – when applied to politics – can help explain certain beliefs and behaviors after the election.... Salon Voters are starting to act like hard-core sports fans — with dangerous repercussions for democracyMichael Devlin, Associate Professor of Communication, Texas
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Interesting take. It would tend to account for the curious lapses of rationality on both sides, even among usually highly rational people in their own fields.Interesting take. It would tend to account for the curious lapses of rationality on both sides, even among usually highly rational people in their own fields.How did American politics get to this point?As sports communication researchers who have written extensively on the vast and powerful influence of identity on attitudes and behavior, we believe our work can offer some ways to understand recent events....Administering a questionnaire that's used by sport communication researchers, we were able to show "team identification" – when applied to politics – can help explain certain beliefs and behaviors after the election.... Salon Voters are starting to act like hard-core sports fans — with dangerous repercussions for democracyMichael Devlin, Associate Professor of Communication, Texas
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How did American politics get to this point?As sports communication researchers who have written extensively on the vast and powerful influence of identity on attitudes and behavior, we believe our work can offer some ways to understand recent events....
Administering a questionnaire that's used by sport communication researchers, we were able to show "team identification" – when applied to politics – can help explain certain beliefs and behaviors after the election....
Salon
Voters are starting to act like hard-core sports fans — with dangerous repercussions for democracy
Michael Devlin, Associate Professor of Communication, Texas State University, and Natalie Brown Devlin, Assistant Professor of Advertising, University of Texas at Austin
Michael Devlin, Associate Professor of Communication, Texas State University, and Natalie Brown Devlin, Assistant Professor of Advertising, University of Texas at Austin