The Bad Thing about Good Games: The Relationship between Close Sporting Events and Game-Day Traffic Fatalities
For sports fans, great games are the close ones—those between evenly matched opponents, where the game remains undecided until the very end. However, the dark side to sporting events is the incidence of traffic fatalities due to game-related drinking. Here, we ask whether the closeness of the game affects the number of fatalities that occur. Two opposing predictions can be made. Games that are not close ("blowouts") may be less engaging, thus increasing drinking. Alternatively, close games may be more dangerous, increasing competition-associated testosterone that spills over into aggressive driving. An analysis of major sporting events (2001–8) shows that closer games are significantly correlated with more fatalities. Importantly, increased fatalities are observed only in locations with winning fans (game site and/or winners’ hometown), congruent with a testosterone-based account. Ultimately, this finding has material consequences for public welfare on game days and suggests that one silver lining for losing fans may be a safer drive home..
| Medienart: |
E-Artikel |
|---|
| Erscheinungsjahr: |
2011 |
|---|---|
| Erschienen: |
2011 |
| Enthalten in: |
Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:38 |
|---|
| Sprache: |
en |
|---|
| Beteiligte Personen: |
Wood, Stacy [VerfasserIn] |
|---|
| Links: |
|---|
| Themen: |
Applied sciences |
|---|
| Anmerkungen: |
Stacy Wood ( stacy_woodncsu.edu ) is the Langdon Distinguished Professor of Marketing, College of Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695. Melayne Morgan McInnes ( mcinnes@moore.sc.edu ) is associate professor of economics, and David A. Norton ( david.norton@grad.moore.sc.edu ) is a doctoral candidate in marketing, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208. The authors are grateful to Kin Blackburn and Terry Shimp for helpful comments on analysis and the 2009 NCAA Men’s Basketball championship game for prompting the research question.. - John Deighton served as editor and Brian Ratchford served as associate editor for this article. |
|---|
| doi: |
10.1086/660164 |
|---|
| funding: |
|
|---|---|
| Förderinstitution / Projekttitel: |
|
| PPN (Katalog-ID): |
JST001935208 |
|---|
| LEADER | 01000caa a22002652 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | JST001935208 | ||
| 003 | DE-627 | ||
| 005 | 20240114221924.0 | ||
| 007 | cr uuu---uuuuu | ||
| 008 | 150322s2011 xx |||||o 00| ||en c | ||
| 024 | 7 | |a 10.1086/660164 |2 doi | |
| 035 | |a (DE-627)JST001935208 | ||
| 035 | |a (JST)660164 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-627 |b ger |c DE-627 |e rakwb | ||
| 041 | |a en | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Wood, Stacy |e verfasserin |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Bad Thing about Good Games: The Relationship between Close Sporting Events and Game-Day Traffic Fatalities |
| 264 | 1 | |c 2011 | |
| 336 | |a Text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a Computermedien |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a Online-Ressource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 500 | |a Stacy Wood ( stacy_woodncsu.edu ) is the Langdon Distinguished Professor of Marketing, College of Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695. Melayne Morgan McInnes ( mcinnes@moore.sc.edu ) is associate professor of economics, and David A. Norton ( david.norton@grad.moore.sc.edu ) is a doctoral candidate in marketing, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208. The authors are grateful to Kin Blackburn and Terry Shimp for helpful comments on analysis and the 2009 NCAA Men’s Basketball championship game for prompting the research question.. - John Deighton served as editor and Brian Ratchford served as associate editor for this article. | ||
| 520 | |a For sports fans, great games are the close ones—those between evenly matched opponents, where the game remains undecided until the very end. However, the dark side to sporting events is the incidence of traffic fatalities due to game-related drinking. Here, we ask whether the closeness of the game affects the number of fatalities that occur. Two opposing predictions can be made. Games that are not close ("blowouts") may be less engaging, thus increasing drinking. Alternatively, close games may be more dangerous, increasing competition-associated testosterone that spills over into aggressive driving. An analysis of major sporting events (2001–8) shows that closer games are significantly correlated with more fatalities. Importantly, increased fatalities are observed only in locations with winning fans (game site and/or winners’ hometown), congruent with a testosterone-based account. Ultimately, this finding has material consequences for public welfare on game days and suggests that one silver lining for losing fans may be a safer drive home. | ||
| 540 | |a © 2011 by JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RESEARCH, Inc. | ||
| 650 | 4 | |a Biological sciences |x Biology |x Developmental biology |x Life cycle |x Death | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Behavioral sciences |x Leisure studies |x Recreation |x Games | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Behavioral sciences |x Human behavior |x Recreational drug use |x Alcohol drinking | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Applied sciences |x Engineering |x Transportation |x Traffic | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Biological sciences |x Biochemistry |x Biomolecules |x Hormones |x Steroid hormones |x Sex hormones |x Androgens |x Testosterone | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Behavioral sciences |x Sociology |x Human societies |x Public safety |x Accidents |x Traffic accidents | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Behavioral sciences |x Psychology |x Cognitive psychology |x Perception |x Perceptual processing |x Perceptual localization | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Behavioral sciences |x Anthropology |x Applied anthropology |x Cultural anthropology |x Subcultures |x Fan cultures |x Sports fandom | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Behavioral sciences |x Leisure studies |x Recreation |x Sports | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Behavioral sciences |x Leisure studies |x Recreation |x Sports |x Ball games |x Basketball | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Biological sciences |x Biology |x Developmental biology |x Life cycle |x Death | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Behavioral sciences |x Leisure studies |x Recreation |x Games | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Behavioral sciences |x Human behavior |x Recreational drug use |x Alcohol drinking | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Applied sciences |x Engineering |x Transportation |x Traffic | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Biological sciences |x Biochemistry |x Biomolecules |x Hormones |x Steroid hormones |x Sex hormones |x Androgens |x Testosterone | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Behavioral sciences |x Sociology |x Human societies |x Public safety |x Accidents |x Traffic accidents | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Behavioral sciences |x Psychology |x Cognitive psychology |x Perception |x Perceptual processing |x Perceptual localization | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Behavioral sciences |x Anthropology |x Applied anthropology |x Cultural anthropology |x Subcultures |x Fan cultures |x Sports fandom | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Behavioral sciences |x Leisure studies |x Recreation |x Sports | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Behavioral sciences |x Leisure studies |x Recreation |x Sports |x Ball games |x Basketball | |
| 655 | 4 | |a research-article | |
| 700 | 1 | |a McInnes, Melayne Morgan |e verfasserin |4 aut | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Norton, David A. |e verfasserin |4 aut | |
| 773 | 1 | 8 | |g volume:38 |g year:2011 |g number:4 |g pages:611-621 |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/660164 |3 Volltext |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://doi.org/10.1086/660164 |3 Volltext |
| 912 | |a GBV_USEFLAG_A | ||
| 912 | |a GBV_JST | ||
| 951 | |a AR | ||
| 952 | |d 38 |j 2011 |e 4 |h 611-621 | ||