Daniel L Wann
Biographic Data
| ID | 247627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel L Wann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel L |
| FAMILY NAME | Wann |
| SIGNATURE | WANN D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Murray State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2440-5523 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 477 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 37 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Welcome to the magic
The current study qualitatively investigates how fans of the Disney Theme Parks are introduced to the brand and how they perceive Disney and Universal Parks. Findings indicate that family plays a very important role in both introducing and building loyalty toward Disney and the Disney Parks. Further, both family and positive memory play an integral role in encouraging fans to continue their fandom of the Disney Parks. Finally, fans report favorit…
Rebels or Star Fleet? Investigating Rivalry in Sport and Star Wars/Star Trek Fandom
The Impact of Hedonic and Meaningful Messages on Sport Consumers’ Responses to Athlete Foundations
Athletes oftentimes own and direct their own philanthropic foundations to make positive prosocial impacts at every level, from global down to local. A key challenge for these foundations is to communicate effectively with their target audiences to obtain support from them. By drawing from the construal-level theory and athlete identification literature, the current study examines the effects of different types of messages (hedonic vs. meaningful)…
Enhancing Older Adults’ Sense of Belonging and Subjective Well-Being Through Sport Game Attendance, Team Identification, and Emotional Support
Objective: We investigate how (a) attendance at sport games and (b) identification with a sport team as fans (i.e., team identification) influence older adults' perceptions of emotional support, belonging, and subjective well-being (SWB). Method: An experimental pilot study was conducted with 50 older adults, followed by a main survey study administered to 534 older adults from various communities across the United States. Results: Pilot study re…
Attachment to Sports Conferences
This study examined points of attachment (POA), or how sports fans experience multiple types of identification beyond team allegiance (e.g., identification with players, coaches, levels of sport, the sport itself, and university/region) at different levels of fandom. More specifically, high school, collegiate (i.e., National Collegiate Athletic Association), and professional (i.e., National Football League) football fans ( N = 698) were asked to …
An examination of sport fandom in Australia
To examine sport fandom in Australia, a convenience sample of 163 university students (62% males, 38% females, M = 21.3) attending a large, multi-sector institution located in a western suburb of Melbourne voluntarily completed a 25-item questionnaire survey which included the Sport Fandom Questionnaire ( Wann, 2002 ) and the Sport Spectator Identification Scale ( Wann and Branscombe, 1993 ). Descriptive and inferential statistics revealed that m…
Use of Retroactive Pessimism as a Method of Coping with Identity Threat
Retroactive pessimism involves retrospectively lowering one's evaluations of a group's chances for success after a failed competition. Although past research has substantiated the existence of this strategy, investigators have yet to examine how level of group identification might impact the use of retroactive pessimism. Given that coping with group threat is most prominent among persons with high levels of group identification, we hypothesized t…
Understanding the positive social psychological benefits of sport team identification
An Examination of Dysfunctional Sport Fans
Past examinations of highly identified sports fans have typically focused on the positive aspects of identification with the team in terms of attitudes, participation, attendance at events, merchandise purchases, and other pro-team related behaviors. The current research, however, investigates the dark side of what may be seen as excessive fan identification—characterized by dysfunctional behaviors such as excessive complaining and confronting ot…
The Norelco Sport Fanatics Survey
The Norelco Sport Fanatics Survey administered by Impulse Research to over 1,400 avid sport fans online assessed their support of and involvement with their teams, emotional responses prior to and subsequent to team performance, and the effect of their fandom on their family and social relations. Analysis yielded results which replicated past research and indicated that sport fandom was extremely important to the respondents, intensified affectiv…
Sport team identification and willingness to consider anonymous acts of hostile aggression
Previous research indicated that a sizeable minority of individuals report a willingness to consider engaging in anonymous acts of instrumental aggression directed toward players and coaches of a rival team. Individuals with a high degree of identification with their favorite team were particularly likely to consider such acts. The current investigation was designed to extend this research by examining the likelihood that individuals would consid…
Sport Fans
1. An Introduction to the Study of Sport Fans Defining and classifying sport fans Demographic and personality traits of sport fans The pervasiveness and impact of sport in today's society Overview of the remainder of the text PART I: The Desire to Follow Sport, Teams, and Athletes 2. Becoming a Sport Fan Socialization into the role of sport fan Sport fan motivation Some final thoughts 3. Becoming a Sport Spectator Theoretical approaches to sport …
The Relationship Between Team Identification and Willingness of Sport Fans to Consider Illegally Assisting Their Team
Previous research had indicated that a sizeable minority of sport fans admit a willingness to anonymously injure a star player or coach of a rival team. Highly identified fans were particularly likely to consider these acts. The current investigation attempted to extend the previous work by examining the frequency with which individuals would consider, under the protection of anonymity, engaging in anti-social acts of cheating that are either ill…
The Psychological Health of 'Joiners
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The Psychological Health of “Joiners”
The current study examined the relationship between scores on social complexity and psychological health. A sample of 202 college students yielded positive correlations for propensity to join and maintain memberships in diverse groups with psychological health, thereby replicating past research
Beliefs in Symbolic Catharsis
Although previous investigations have consistently refuted the notion of catharsis, research indicates that a substantial proportion of the general population continues to believe that aggression can lead to a lowering of subsequent aggression. The current study examined the relationships among involvement in aggressive and nonaggressive sports and beliefs in symbolic sport catharsis (i.e., the belief that watching aggressive sports will lead to …
Sport Fan Aggression and Anonymity
The current study tested the hypothesis that there would be a positive relationship between sport team identification and willingness to injure anonymously an opposing player or coach. To test this hypothesis, 88 college students were asked to indicate their willingness to murder someone anonymously and their willingness to injure anonymously the star player and coach of a rival team. The data confirmed the hypothesis, even after controlling for …
A Preliminary Investigation of the Relationship Between Alcohol Use and Sport Fandom
The current research examined the relationship between level of sport fandom (operationally defined as the degree subjects considered themselves to be a sport fan, the amount of money they spent each year on sport spectating, and the amount of time they spent each week reading about, discussing, watching, or listening to sport programs) and the consumption of beer and liquor. Data collected from 180 college students failed to find any significant…
Observational Learning Effectiveness as a Function of Model Characteristics
Observational learning is an important component of human learning. According to Bandura (1965), observational learning is characterized by four stages: attention, retention, motor reproduction, and motivation. The first stage, attention, is a crucial subprocess that can be influenced by model characteristics. Characteristics such as attractiveness, trustworthiness, similarity, and perceived competence have been shown to enhance a model's effecti…
The Inequitable Newspaper Coverage of Men's and Women's Athletics at Small, Medium, and Large Universities
The current investigation extended previous research on gender inequities in media coverage of athletics. Sports sections from three university-sponsored newspapers were examined. Researchers recorded the number of male and female authors, number of articles focusing on male and female athletics, number of lines focusing on male and female athletics, and number of photos focusing on male and female athletes. Results revealed that male athletics r…
Reduction of Anxiety about Death
It was hypothesized that individuals who are reminded of their own mortality will experience anxiety which is reduced by an increased need for belief in immortality. A questionnaire assessing the need for literal and two forms of symbolic immortality was developed. Analysis showed that awareness of mortality increased scores on the need for literal immortality but not on either form of symbolic immortality
Being a “Joiner” and Psychological Well-Being
The current study supported the hypothesis that individuals with a propensity to join groups score more psychologically healthy than individuals less so inclined
Associations among Rock Music Videos, Locus of Control, and Aggression
This study tested the prediction that 28 subjects with scores indicating an external locus of control would have heightened scores on aggression after exposure to excerpts of aggressive music videos. The results did not confirm the hypothesis
Basking in Reflected Glory, Cutting Off Reflected Failure, and Cutting Off Future Failure
Although a large amount of research has investigated the indirect impression management tactics of basking in reflected glory and cutting off reflected failure, none had investigated the potential importance of group identification. Study 1 of the current research tested the prediction that persons maintaining their association with an unsuccessful group would be higher in group identification than those not associating with the group. This predi…
Peripheral ingroup membership status and public negativity toward outgroups
Peripheral membership status in a desirable ingroup was predicted to elevate outgroup derogation when Ss believed other ingroup members might learn of their responses. Less negativity toward outgroups was expected when peripheral members' responses were to remain private. Core ingroup members, in contrast, were not expected to show public-private differences in derogation of outgroups. The results of 2 experiments supported these predictions, wit…
Collective self‐esteem consequences of outgroup derogation when a valued social identity is on trial
A structural equation model tested the role of degree of identification with a group (Americans) and level of collective self‐esteem as determinants of outgroup derogation under identity‐threatening and non‐threatening conditions. High identification and reductions in collective self‐esteem following a threat to that identity lead to outgroup derogation, but level of collective self‐esteem did not predict outgroup derogation in the no‐threat cond…
Preliminary Validation of the Sport Fan Motivation Scale
Factors believed to be motivations responsible for sport fandom include eustress, self-esteem, escape, entertainment, economic, aesthetic, group affiliation, and family needs. However, these factors have been untested empirically, and a valid and reliable measure of sport fan motivation has been unavailable to researchers. The current two studies were an attempt to develop such a measure. The construction and validation of a 23-item Likert-scale …
Die-Hard and Fair-Weather Fans
Previous research has demonstrated that people are capable of strategic self-presentation; they decrease the distance between themselves and successful groups with which they have only the most trivial of associations, and strive to increase the distance between themselves and groups viewed negatively as a result of some perceived failure. These two processes, termed basking-in- reflected-glory (BIRGing) and cutting-off-reflected failure (CORFing…
The Positive Social and Self Concept Consequences of Sports Team Identification
As a result of increased geographic mobility, industrialization, and the like, traditional social and community ties have declined. Conversely, sports spectatorship has continued to flourish. We argue that strong identification with a specific sports team provides a buffer from feelings of depression and alienation, and at the same time, fosters feelings of belongingness and self worth. In effect, sports team identification replaces more traditio…
Peripheral ingroup membership status and public negativity toward outgroups
Peripheral membership status in a desirable ingroup was predicted to elevate outgroup derogation when Ss believed other ingroup members might learn of their responses. Less negativity toward outgroups was expected when peripheral members' responses were to remain private. Core ingroup members, in contrast, were not expected to show public-private differences in derogation of outgroups. The results of 2 experiments supported these predictions, wit…
Role of Identification with a Group, Arousal, Categorization Processes, and Self-Esteem in Sports Spectator Aggression
Previous attempts to account for the occurrence of spectator aggression have employed one of the long-standing theories of aggression (i.e., instinctual theories, drive reduction models, and the social learning perspective). While support for some aspects of these theories has been documented, a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon might direct research to more fruitful avenues. Such an analysis is proposed in this review. In addition to inco…
An Examination of Dysfunctional Sport Fans
Past examinations of highly identified sports fans have typically focused on the positive aspects of identification with the team in terms of attitudes, participation, attendance at events, merchandise purchases, and other pro-team related behaviors. The current research, however, investigates the dark side of what may be seen as excessive fan identification—characterized by dysfunctional behaviors such as excessive complaining and confronting ot…
Aggression Among Highly Identified Spectators as a Function of Their Need To Maintain Positive Social Identity
The Inequitable Newspaper Coverage of Men's and Women's Athletics at Small, Medium, and Large Universities
The current investigation extended previous research on gender inequities in media coverage of athletics. Sports sections from three university-sponsored newspapers were examined. Researchers recorded the number of male and female authors, number of articles focusing on male and female athletics, number of lines focusing on male and female athletics, and number of photos focusing on male and female athletes. Results revealed that male athletics r…
Sport team identification and willingness to consider anonymous acts of hostile aggression
Previous research indicated that a sizeable minority of individuals report a willingness to consider engaging in anonymous acts of instrumental aggression directed toward players and coaches of a rival team. Individuals with a high degree of identification with their favorite team were particularly likely to consider such acts. The current investigation was designed to extend this research by examining the likelihood that individuals would consid…
Enhancing Older Adults’ Sense of Belonging and Subjective Well-Being Through Sport Game Attendance, Team Identification, and Emotional Support
Objective: We investigate how (a) attendance at sport games and (b) identification with a sport team as fans (i.e., team identification) influence older adults' perceptions of emotional support, belonging, and subjective well-being (SWB). Method: An experimental pilot study was conducted with 50 older adults, followed by a main survey study administered to 534 older adults from various communities across the United States. Results: Pilot study re…
Emotional Responses to the Sports Page
Spectators' emotional responses during actual competitions and attributions for game outcomes have been previously examined. In the current research, emotional responses of fans either high or low in identification with a team were measured after they simply read a newspaper article written by another fan of their team or a fan of a competing team. The author was described as either loyal or disloyal to his own team following a competition that w…
An examination of sport fandom in Australia
To examine sport fandom in Australia, a convenience sample of 163 university students (62% males, 38% females, M = 21.3) attending a large, multi-sector institution located in a western suburb of Melbourne voluntarily completed a 25-item questionnaire survey which included the Sport Fandom Questionnaire ( Wann, 2002 ) and the Sport Spectator Identification Scale ( Wann and Branscombe, 1993 ). Descriptive and inferential statistics revealed that m…
Use of Retroactive Pessimism as a Method of Coping with Identity Threat
Retroactive pessimism involves retrospectively lowering one's evaluations of a group's chances for success after a failed competition. Although past research has substantiated the existence of this strategy, investigators have yet to examine how level of group identification might impact the use of retroactive pessimism. Given that coping with group threat is most prominent among persons with high levels of group identification, we hypothesized t…
The Impact of Hedonic and Meaningful Messages on Sport Consumers’ Responses to Athlete Foundations
Athletes oftentimes own and direct their own philanthropic foundations to make positive prosocial impacts at every level, from global down to local. A key challenge for these foundations is to communicate effectively with their target audiences to obtain support from them. By drawing from the construal-level theory and athlete identification literature, the current study examines the effects of different types of messages (hedonic vs. meaningful)…
Person perception when aggressive or nonaggressive sports are primed
Previous research investigating the factors contributing to sports spectator violence has focused primarily on conscious processes such as the disinhibiting effects of aggressive models and physiological arousal. The current research borrows a methodology from social cognition work to examine the role of passive, category accessibility effects on fan hostility. Prior research has indicated that as a schema becomes more accessible in memory, the u…
Die-Hard and Fair-Weather Fans
Previous research has demonstrated that people are capable of strategic self-presentation; they decrease the distance between themselves and successful groups with which they have only the most trivial of associations, and strive to increase the distance between themselves and groups viewed negatively as a result of some perceived failure. These two processes, termed basking-in- reflected-glory (BIRGing) and cutting-off-reflected failure (CORFing…
The Positive Social and Self Concept Consequences of Sports Team Identification
As a result of increased geographic mobility, industrialization, and the like, traditional social and community ties have declined. Conversely, sports spectatorship has continued to flourish. We argue that strong identification with a specific sports team provides a buffer from feelings of depression and alienation, and at the same time, fosters feelings of belongingness and self worth. In effect, sports team identification replaces more traditio…
Physiological arousal and reactions to outgroup members during competitions that implicate an important social identity
Exposure to sports competitions, especially those involving violence, can elevate physiological arousal, potentially setting the stage for transforming hostile inclinations into aggressive behavior. Personality and cognitive factors that influence the interpretation given to such competitions may influence the impact of these events. The effects of exposure to a sporting competition that had high or low importance for subjects' social identity on…
Role of Identification with a Group, Arousal, Categorization Processes, and Self-Esteem in Sports Spectator Aggression
Previous attempts to account for the occurrence of spectator aggression have employed one of the long-standing theories of aggression (i.e., instinctual theories, drive reduction models, and the social learning perspective). While support for some aspects of these theories has been documented, a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon might direct research to more fruitful avenues. Such an analysis is proposed in this review. In addition to inco…
Emotional Responses to the Sports Page
Spectators' emotional responses during actual competitions and attributions for game outcomes have been previously examined. In the current research, emotional responses of fans either high or low in identification with a team were measured after they simply read a newspaper article written by another fan of their team or a fan of a competing team. The author was described as either loyal or disloyal to his own team following a competition that w…
In-Group or Out-Group Extemity
Some researchers have found that out-group members are responded to more extremely than in-group members; others have found the reveres. The pre authors hypothesized that when importance of group membership was low, out-group extremity would be observed. That is, when the target's actions have few or no implications for the perceive's identity, out-group extremity will occur. In-group extremity was expected when perceivers are high in identificat…
Sexual Permissiveness and Religious Orientation
This study examined the relationship between religious orientation and premarital sexual permissiveness for males and females whose ages ranged from 16 to 54 years. It was hypothesized and found that persons with an intrinsic religious orientation ( n = 48) tended to be less permissive than persons classified as indiscriminately proreligious ( n = 40). Further, both groups were less permissive than extrinsically religious subjects ( n = 63)
Aggression Among Highly Identified Spectators as a Function of Their Need To Maintain Positive Social Identity
The Joiners' Scale
This report concerns the validation of a questionnaire designed to assess social-complexity or the extent to which individuals attempt to join and maintain memberships in a number of diverse groups. Three studies ( ns of 118, 63, and 125) attest to the single-factor instrument's internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and validity. In addition, higher scores on the joiners' social-complexity measure were significantly correlated with posit…
Collective self‐esteem consequences of outgroup derogation when a valued social identity is on trial
A structural equation model tested the role of degree of identification with a group (Americans) and level of collective self‐esteem as determinants of outgroup derogation under identity‐threatening and non‐threatening conditions. High identification and reductions in collective self‐esteem following a threat to that identity lead to outgroup derogation, but level of collective self‐esteem did not predict outgroup derogation in the no‐threat cond…
Basking in Reflected Glory, Cutting Off Reflected Failure, and Cutting Off Future Failure
Although a large amount of research has investigated the indirect impression management tactics of basking in reflected glory and cutting off reflected failure, none had investigated the potential importance of group identification. Study 1 of the current research tested the prediction that persons maintaining their association with an unsuccessful group would be higher in group identification than those not associating with the group. This predi…
Peripheral ingroup membership status and public negativity toward outgroups
Peripheral membership status in a desirable ingroup was predicted to elevate outgroup derogation when Ss believed other ingroup members might learn of their responses. Less negativity toward outgroups was expected when peripheral members' responses were to remain private. Core ingroup members, in contrast, were not expected to show public-private differences in derogation of outgroups. The results of 2 experiments supported these predictions, wit…
Preliminary Validation of the Sport Fan Motivation Scale
Factors believed to be motivations responsible for sport fandom include eustress, self-esteem, escape, entertainment, economic, aesthetic, group affiliation, and family needs. However, these factors have been untested empirically, and a valid and reliable measure of sport fan motivation has been unavailable to researchers. The current two studies were an attempt to develop such a measure. The construction and validation of a 23-item Likert-scale …
Reduction of Anxiety about Death
It was hypothesized that individuals who are reminded of their own mortality will experience anxiety which is reduced by an increased need for belief in immortality. A questionnaire assessing the need for literal and two forms of symbolic immortality was developed. Analysis showed that awareness of mortality increased scores on the need for literal immortality but not on either form of symbolic immortality
Being a “Joiner” and Psychological Well-Being
The current study supported the hypothesis that individuals with a propensity to join groups score more psychologically healthy than individuals less so inclined
Associations among Rock Music Videos, Locus of Control, and Aggression
This study tested the prediction that 28 subjects with scores indicating an external locus of control would have heightened scores on aggression after exposure to excerpts of aggressive music videos. The results did not confirm the hypothesis
A Preliminary Investigation of the Relationship Between Alcohol Use and Sport Fandom
The current research examined the relationship between level of sport fandom (operationally defined as the degree subjects considered themselves to be a sport fan, the amount of money they spent each year on sport spectating, and the amount of time they spent each week reading about, discussing, watching, or listening to sport programs) and the consumption of beer and liquor. Data collected from 180 college students failed to find any significant…
Observational Learning Effectiveness as a Function of Model Characteristics
Observational learning is an important component of human learning. According to Bandura (1965), observational learning is characterized by four stages: attention, retention, motor reproduction, and motivation. The first stage, attention, is a crucial subprocess that can be influenced by model characteristics. Characteristics such as attractiveness, trustworthiness, similarity, and perceived competence have been shown to enhance a model's effecti…
The Inequitable Newspaper Coverage of Men's and Women's Athletics at Small, Medium, and Large Universities
The current investigation extended previous research on gender inequities in media coverage of athletics. Sports sections from three university-sponsored newspapers were examined. Researchers recorded the number of male and female authors, number of articles focusing on male and female athletics, number of lines focusing on male and female athletics, and number of photos focusing on male and female athletes. Results revealed that male athletics r…
Beliefs in Symbolic Catharsis
Although previous investigations have consistently refuted the notion of catharsis, research indicates that a substantial proportion of the general population continues to believe that aggression can lead to a lowering of subsequent aggression. The current study examined the relationships among involvement in aggressive and nonaggressive sports and beliefs in symbolic sport catharsis (i.e., the belief that watching aggressive sports will lead to …
Sport Fan Aggression and Anonymity
The current study tested the hypothesis that there would be a positive relationship between sport team identification and willingness to injure anonymously an opposing player or coach. To test this hypothesis, 88 college students were asked to indicate their willingness to murder someone anonymously and their willingness to injure anonymously the star player and coach of a rival team. The data confirmed the hypothesis, even after controlling for …
Sport Fans
1. An Introduction to the Study of Sport Fans Defining and classifying sport fans Demographic and personality traits of sport fans The pervasiveness and impact of sport in today's society Overview of the remainder of the text PART I: The Desire to Follow Sport, Teams, and Athletes 2. Becoming a Sport Fan Socialization into the role of sport fan Sport fan motivation Some final thoughts 3. Becoming a Sport Spectator Theoretical approaches to sport …
The Relationship Between Team Identification and Willingness of Sport Fans to Consider Illegally Assisting Their Team
Previous research had indicated that a sizeable minority of sport fans admit a willingness to anonymously injure a star player or coach of a rival team. Highly identified fans were particularly likely to consider these acts. The current investigation attempted to extend the previous work by examining the frequency with which individuals would consider, under the protection of anonymity, engaging in anti-social acts of cheating that are either ill…
The Psychological Health of 'Joiners
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