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 systemamygdalaventral tegmental areanon-romantic lovefootball fansubstantia nigraThe 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.2017-02-23info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10316/44185http://hdl.handle.net/10316/44185https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx003https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx003eng1749-5016https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/3051628Duarte, Isabel CatarinaAfonso, 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:RCAAP2021-06-29T10:03:15Zoai:estudogeral.uc.pt:10316/44185Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T20:53:40.127805Repositório 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 Catarina reward system amygdala ventral tegmental area non-romantic love football fan substantia nigra |
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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 Catarina |
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Duarte, Isabel Catarina 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 Catarina Afonso, Sónia Jorge, Helena Cayolla, Ricardo Ferreira, Carlos Castelo-Branco, Miguel |
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reward system amygdala ventral tegmental area non-romantic love football fan substantia nigra |
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reward system amygdala ventral tegmental area non-romantic love football fan substantia nigra |
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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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