American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. This study investigates sport fandom’s major dimensions: star attraction and team identification, analyzing transfers of soccer players Ronaldo and Messi. Data from teams’ official social media (Instagram,…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. Over the last decade, ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Jewish society in Israel has witnessed an unprecedented attempt to place sexual violence high on the agenda, calling for concerted communal action and assistan…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. The Olympic Games stand as a pinnacle of human achievement, captivating global attention for over a century. Beyond the remarkable athletic displays, they serve as a rich tapestry for studying the intricat…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. In the wake of the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan and its ban on women’s sport, hundreds of Afghan athletes, including several Olympians, decided to flee the country rather than give up their spo…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. In sport, various examples of intermediate match targets exist that advantage the target-achieving party’s match outcome. We examine said targets within paired, multi-stage Tullock contest games, one a nes…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print.
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. This article introduces an explicit model for sporting fans’ preferences which captures their desire for balanced contests, or competitive balance. Key parameters of the model naturally correspond to the s…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. This article localizes the traveling concept of permaculture in Timor-Leste as a pathway into studying the juventude permakultura (permaculture youth) movement, its pedagogies of hope, sensory learning, an…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. It was hypothesized that training received during formal education fosters the mental mindset of the need to avoid cognitive closure and leads to more efficient information search characteristics. Despite …
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. This study examines how elite political and media actors strategically leverage moral claims for partisan ends, transforming political identities, issues, and campaigns into zero-sum moral contests against…