Daniel Wann

So much of your identity gets wrapped up in the team, when the team does well or poorly... it's as if you were one of the competitors, so you feel their successes as your own, because in a way, it is.

When the team won, they had a more positive outlook about their cognitive skills and their social skills, anything that is impacted by increases in positive mood are going to be increased by watching your team win.

I've often thought that they should do a study that looks at tipping, i would think that after the team wins, the tips would be higher, because happy people tip more.

Research shows that when a team is successful, people estimate their cognitive skills to be better. They estimate their social skills to be better. When a team is successful, they have a more positive outlook on life in general.

They've done research that shows that sometimes the outcome and the success and failure of national teams can be linked to the economy for a short period of time.

You can't tell the NFL to quit selling beer, you can't tell the Lakers you should get your fans to care less, but you can tell youth sports parents to back off.