Tribal love: the neural correlates of passionate engagement in football fans
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Resumo: | The tribal character of the affective link between football fans and their teams is a well-recognized phenomenon. Other forms of love such as romantic or maternal attachment have previously been studied from a neuroimaging point of view. Here we aimed to investigate the neural basis of this tribal form of love, which implies both the feeling of belongingness and rivalry against opposing teams. A pool of 56 participants was submitted to an fMRI experimental design involving the presentation of winning and losing football moments of their loved, rival or neutral teams. We found recruitment of amygdala and reward regions, including the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and substantia nigra (SN), as well as other limbic regions involved in emotional cognition, for 'positive vs neutral' and 'positive vs negative' conditions. The latter contrast was correlated with neuropsychological scores of fanaticism in the amygdala and regions within the reward system, as the VTA and SN. The observation of increased response patterns in critical components of the reward system, in particular for positive content related to the loved team, suggests that this kind of non-romantic love reflects a specific arousal and motivational state, which is biased for emotional learning of positive outcomes. |
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Tribal love: the neural correlates of passionate engagement in football fansReward systemNon-romantic loveAmygdalaVentral Tegmental AreaSubstantia NigraFootball fanThe tribal character of the affective link between football fans and their teams is a well-recognized phenomenon. Other forms of love such as romantic or maternal attachment have previously been studied from a neuroimaging point of view. Here we aimed to investigate the neural basis of this tribal form of love, which implies both the feeling of belongingness and rivalry against opposing teams. A pool of 56 participants was submitted to an fMRI experimental design involving the presentation of winning and losing football moments of their loved, rival or neutral teams. We found recruitment of amygdala and reward regions, including the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and substantia nigra (SN), as well as other limbic regions involved in emotional cognition, for 'positive vs neutral' and 'positive vs negative' conditions. The latter contrast was correlated with neuropsychological scores of fanaticism in the amygdala and regions within the reward system, as the VTA and SN. The observation of increased response patterns in critical components of the reward system, in particular for positive content related to the loved team, suggests that this kind of non-romantic love reflects a specific arousal and motivational state, which is biased for emotional learning of positive outcomes.Oxford University Press2018-09-04T14:49:04Z2017-01-01T00:00:00Z2017info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10773/24012eng1749-501610.1093/scan/nsx003Duarte, Isabel CAfonso, SóniaJorge, HelenaCayolla, RicardoFerreira, CarlosCastelo-Branco, Miguelinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-02-22T11:47:14Zoai:ria.ua.pt:10773/24012Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T02:57:50.281316Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Tribal love: the neural correlates of passionate engagement in football fans |
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Tribal love: the neural correlates of passionate engagement in football fans |
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Tribal love: the neural correlates of passionate engagement in football fans Duarte, Isabel C Reward system Non-romantic love Amygdala Ventral Tegmental Area Substantia Nigra Football fan |
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Tribal love: the neural correlates of passionate engagement in football fans |
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Tribal love: the neural correlates of passionate engagement in football fans |
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Tribal love: the neural correlates of passionate engagement in football fans |
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Tribal love: the neural correlates of passionate engagement in football fans |
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Tribal love: the neural correlates of passionate engagement in football fans |
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Duarte, Isabel C |
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Duarte, Isabel C Afonso, Sónia Jorge, Helena Cayolla, Ricardo Ferreira, Carlos Castelo-Branco, Miguel |
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Afonso, Sónia Jorge, Helena Cayolla, Ricardo Ferreira, Carlos Castelo-Branco, Miguel |
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Duarte, Isabel C Afonso, Sónia Jorge, Helena Cayolla, Ricardo Ferreira, Carlos Castelo-Branco, Miguel |
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Reward system Non-romantic love Amygdala Ventral Tegmental Area Substantia Nigra Football fan |
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Reward system Non-romantic love Amygdala Ventral Tegmental Area Substantia Nigra Football fan |
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The tribal character of the affective link between football fans and their teams is a well-recognized phenomenon. Other forms of love such as romantic or maternal attachment have previously been studied from a neuroimaging point of view. Here we aimed to investigate the neural basis of this tribal form of love, which implies both the feeling of belongingness and rivalry against opposing teams. A pool of 56 participants was submitted to an fMRI experimental design involving the presentation of winning and losing football moments of their loved, rival or neutral teams. We found recruitment of amygdala and reward regions, including the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and substantia nigra (SN), as well as other limbic regions involved in emotional cognition, for 'positive vs neutral' and 'positive vs negative' conditions. The latter contrast was correlated with neuropsychological scores of fanaticism in the amygdala and regions within the reward system, as the VTA and SN. The observation of increased response patterns in critical components of the reward system, in particular for positive content related to the loved team, suggests that this kind of non-romantic love reflects a specific arousal and motivational state, which is biased for emotional learning of positive outcomes. |
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