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Attributions of Highly Identified Sports Spectators

Daniel L. Wann Department of Psychology Murray State University
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Thomas J. Dolan Department of Psychology Murray State University
Pages 783-792 | Received 14 Jan 1994, Published online: 01 Jul 2010
 
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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.

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