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Voters are starting to act like hard-core sports fans — with dangerous repercussions for democracy — Michael Devlin and Natalie Brown Devlin

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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.
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
Mike Norman
Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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