Research results that "football fans can not be happy" will be announced

Football celebration FIFA World Cup will be held in Russia once every four years on June 14, 2018. Tens of thousands of supporters from all over the world will visit the land of Russia and will be thrilled with the match result of the team that supports them. It is a great pleasure to win the team that supports yourself in such a soccer game, but the result of research that "the pain that the mind suffers when defeated is more than twice the pleasure of victory" is reported in the East of England Researchers at Sussex University in Sussex state announced.

Football makes fans less happy: News and events: Research at Sussex: University of Sussex
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/newsandevents?id=44576

The research team is "Mappiness"About about 32,000 subjects watching football match regularly," how do you feel after the match "" what you are doing "" where you are "" who are you " We continued asking questions such as questionnaires and analyzed answers. "Mappiness" is an application that casts a question to the user and the user himself judges the degree of happiness at the time of reply. The number of responses gathered through the survey is more than 3 million, and by combining these with the position information of the football stadium and the result of the game of football over the past three years, the football fans analyze the change of mood after the game I will.


The analysis result revealed that "the cumulative impact of continuing a football fan is overwhelmingly negative".

Since Mappiness informs the user randomly and asks the question, it becomes possible to measure 'more happiness degree of that moment' more accurately than conventional research. If the team supporting it wins the game, the happiness degree of football fans will rise by an average of 3.9 points in one hour, but will drop to 1.3 points after two hours and 1.1 points after three hours. On the other hand, the happiness level when the team is defeated drops by an average of 7.8 points after 1 hour, 3.1 points after 2 hours, 3.2 points after 3 hours. In other words, the degree of happiness that falls when you lose is more influential to your fans than the happiness that rises when you win the game.

In addition, the change in happiness obtained by the game result will be larger for fans watching at the actual match venue. The pleasure of victory obtained when watching the game in the stadium is 3 to 4 times higher than those who watch the game on TV such as home, averaging up to 10 points of happiness. According to Mappiness, it seems that there was nothing but sexual acts and courtship behaviors which resulted in greater happiness than watching and winning of football at the stadium. Of course, the stadium watchers are more damaged when defeated, and the average happiness level is reduced by 14 points.


Dr. George McCullon, a behavioral economist working at the business school of Sussex University and co-founder of Mappiness, said, "Most fans believe football makes them happy, but unique data I do not show such things, saying that continuing to support the team despite greater pain than joy is unreasonable from a traditional economic point of view. "

Then, why do fans cheer football? The answer may be in the sense of euphoria obtained before the start of the game. According to the research team, the happiness degree of the fans who went to the stadium to watch at the stadium seems to rise by 7.9 points before the whistle at the beginning of the game is blown. If you are watching at home TV, only 0.2 points will rise, so this is exactly like an answer to the mystery "Why do you watch football on the ground?" As another hypothesis, the research team says that it may be addictive to the feeling of well-being obtained when the team that the football fans support victory.

Professor Peter Dolton, a member of the research team, said, "Football fans will not be happy as a whole, but to endure the greater pain of defeat in order to taste the pleasure of the team's victory It seems that it seems to be. "

In addition, it is not easy for the soccer team to "not defeat the game", but the golden age Arsenal known as "Invisible" has achieved the first undefeated victory in the Premier League in the 2003-2004 season I will. By saying "undefeated", Arsenal fans at that time may have experienced the unimaginable feeling of happiness in one year.