{"id":11006,"date":"2019-01-04T12:09:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T17:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=11006"},"modified":"2025-05-07T12:27:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T16:27:52","slug":"jim-davies-on-the-psychology-of-why-we-love-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2019\/jim-davies-on-the-psychology-of-why-we-love-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Davies on the Psychology of Why We Love Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n        \n        \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-cu-black-50 pt-10 pb-12\" style=\"\">\n\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-cu-black-800 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Jim Davies on the Psychology of Why We Love Sports\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #292f33; 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