{"id":14361,"date":"2022-12-01T09:36:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T14:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=14361"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:36:54","slug":"jim-davies-on-the-psychology-of-why-people-like-to-watch-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2022\/jim-davies-on-the-psychology-of-why-people-like-to-watch-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Davies on the psychology of why people like to watch 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-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Jim Davies on the psychology of why people like to watch sports\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">Why do people like to watch sports so much? CityNews interviews Jim Davies about the psychology of sports fandom, in the context of the World Cup. You can read or listen (11 minutes 40 seconds). <a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fottawa.citynews.ca%2Flocal-news%2Fthere-are-different-reasons-behind-watching-sports-university-professor-6146731&amp;data=05%7C01%7CUzmaKhan%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C11938d5872ec4e92986708dad31d9079%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638054421641863246%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=7PBbz00Ju5R%2BHUKwBuxA1eg7H%2Bj88kVvLVcS7xJGPFA%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/ottawa.citynews.ca\/local-news\/there-are-different-reasons-behind-watching-sports-university-professor-6146731<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do people like to watch sports so much? CityNews interviews Jim Davies about the psychology of sports fandom, in the context of the World Cup. You can read or listen (11 minutes 40 seconds). https:\/\/ottawa.citynews.ca\/local-news\/there-are-different-reasons-behind-watching-sports-university-professor-6146731<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14362,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14361\/revisions\/14362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}