https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/part-of-sports-fans-brains-shut-down-when-their-team-loses/ar-AA1kjcgh

The section of the organ responsible for controlling how people respond is said to be switched off by defeat, which increases the likelihood of a person acting in irrational and aggressive ways. Losing, it seems, is a trigger for a mental mechanism that leads to explosive tendencies in the most hardcore fans. In more moderate followers, however, the response to a loss is less violent and more introspective.
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The findings explain the extreme attachment people have with their sports team and the subsequent hooliganism and tribalism that these emotional investments can create.

This was about sports but it sure would seem applicable to politics. Just look at Trump's win in 2016 and his loss in 2020.
Fascinating stuff.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/part-of-sports-fans-brains-shut-down-when-their-team-loses/ar-AA1kjcgh

This was about sports but it sure would seem applicable to politics. Just look at Trump's win in 2016 and his loss in 2020.
Fascinating stuff.

Wouldn't people's reaction to success and failures also be credited as to how they were brought up?

That kinda explains why some people are less aggressive and more introspective.

Wouldn't people's reaction to success and failures also be credited as to how they were brought up?

That kinda explains why some people are less aggressive and more introspective.

I find the nurture vs nature topic fascinating. I do think how people are raised would play some role in how they handle loss but I do think this is a large primal root for this.

The study found that the moderate people were not affected by this as much, I wonder how that would dovetail with being raised as well.

Wouldn't people's reaction to success and failures also be credited as to how they were brought up?

That kinda explains why some people are less aggressive and more introspective.

Answer this for me:

if you had to do a "word match' game, and in the first column you had Liberal Democrat & Conservative Republican as categories, and in the second column the words "mature," "grown-up," "immature," and "naive," which categories would you say those words belong in?

if you say what i think you'll say, that might be a more direct correlation with how people handle losing than simply party affiliation.