Rooting for (and Then Abandoning) the Underdog
By JongHan Kim, Scott T. Allison, Dafna Eylon, G. Goethals, Michael J. Markus, S. M. Hindle, Heather A. McGuire. 2008
126 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b6aff6d929f9aeb48203f07794dcaec4d9233d2b
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- G. Goethals
- Scott T. Allison
Citations in the corpus
- Story Perspective and Character Similarity as Drivers of Identification and Narrative Persuasion (2016, unknown): “” Several studies have shown that people indeed sympathize more with the underdogs in political, business, sports, and artistic contexts (see, e.g., Goldschmied & Vandello, 2012; Kim et al., 2008).”
- Making heroes: The construction of courage, competence and virtue (2012, background): “The results of several experiments suggest that we sympathize and identify with such people who struggle to achieve a difficult goal (Allison & Burnette, 2009; Allison & Goethals, 2008; Kim et al., 2008).”