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Emotional Sharing in Football Audiences

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Thonhauser, Gerhard; Wetzels, Michael – 2019

The negative aim of this paper is to identify shortcomings in received theories. First, we criticize approaching audiences, and large gatherings more general, in categories revolving around the notion of the crowd. Second, we show how leading paradigms in emotion research restrict research on the social-relational dynamics of emotions by reducing them to physiological processes like emotional contagion or to cognitive processes like social appraisal. Our positive aim is to offer an alternative proposal for conceptualizing emotional dynamics in audiences. First, we offer a notion of emotional sharing for studying the social-relational dynamics of emotions. Second, we propose a working concept of audience as a dynamic and dispersed social collective. Finally, we bring these elements together in the description of two scenes of jubilation.

Title
Emotional Sharing in Football Audiences
Author
Thonhauser, Gerhard; Wetzels, Michael
Date
2019
Identifier
DOI: 10.1080/00948705.2019.1613159
Appeared in
Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 46(2)
Language
eng
Type
Text
Size or Duration
pp. 224–243