A relationship between temperature and aggression in NFL football penalties
| Autor: | Curtis M. Craig, Randy W. Overbeek, Miles V. Condon, Shannon B. Rinaldo |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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American football
050109 social psychology Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Context (language use) Football League Outcome (game theory) 050105 experimental psychology lcsh:GV557-1198.995 medicine Intergroup Regular Paper 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Orthopedics and Sports Medicine lcsh:Sports medicine lcsh:Sports Aggression 05 social sciences Multilevel model Temperature medicine.symptom Psychology lcsh:RC1200-1245 Social psychology Sports |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Sport and Health Science, Vol 5, Iss 2, Pp 205-210 (2016) |
| Popis: | Background Increased ambient temperature has been implicated in increased physical aggression, which has important practical consequences. The present study investigates this established relationship between aggressive behavior and ambient temperature in the highly aggressive context of professional football in the National Football League (NFL). Methods Using a publicly available dataset, authors conducted multiple hierarchical regression analyses on game-level data (2326 games). Results The analysis revealed that temperature positively predicted aggressive penalties in football, and that this relationship was significant for teams playing at home but not for visiting teams. Conclusion These results indicate that even in the aggressive context of football, warmer weather contributes to increased violence. Further, the presence of the heat-aggression relationship for the home team suggests that the characteristics of interacting groups may influence whether heat would have an adverse effect on the outcome of those interactions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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