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Re:Researchers Learned to Use Facebook ‘Likes’ to Sway Your ... by dfxm12 on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @10:26AM (#16638212)
When was the data gathered (I know the article says they were published in 2015, but that's different)?

I could think of a time, around 2012, specifically before Rose injured his knee, when Miami Heat and Derrick Rose fans were not very neurotic.

I don't think "sports are really good helping you not be neurotic", but I can see how rooting for a good team might be.

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Re:Researchers Learned to Use Facebook ‘Likes’ to Sway Your ... by majormajor on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @12:13PM (#16639476)
I wonder if it would be the reverse.

Bandwagonning the current best team could be correlated with being non-neurotic. You don't have your personal identity tied up in it, you just like seeing great players do great things. There is something crazy about investigating significant amounts of emotion and energy into rooting for a team with very poor odds of winning... (says me, who's as guilty as anyone).

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