Emerson College

Making Sense of Sport Fan Identification and Loyalty: Differentiating First and Second Favorite Teams of Mexico’s NFL Fans

In this empirical study, we examined the impact of NFL fanship on team identification and team loyalty. While sport spectators have various motives for watching a game, even when their favorite team is not playing, little to no known research has illuminated how NFL fanship trans...

Self-Perceptions on Social Media vs. Offline Contrast With Those Perceived in Generalized but Not Close Others

Self-perception varies across contexts. Do perceptions of others across contexts vary in the same way? Here, a multi-study mapping of context-framed person perception addressed this question. Participants (N = 1748) reported perceptions of the Big Five personality traits specifyi...

The Relativity of the Individual Mind

For roughly a century, the dominant account of selfhood in psychology, philosophy, and the social sciences has held that the individual self is derivative of the social and narrative field — constituted by it, and possessing no independent standing. This paper does not dispute th...

The Relativity of the Individual Mind

For roughly a century, the dominant account of selfhood in psychology, philosophy, and the social sciences has held that the individual self is derivative of the social and narrative field — constituted by it, and possessing no independent standing. This paper does not dispute th...

The Relativity of the Individual Mind

For roughly a century, the dominant account of selfhood in psychology, philosophy, and the social sciences has held that the individual self is derivative of the social and narrative field — constituted by it, and possessing no independent standing. This paper does not dispute th...