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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Underdog"”.
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Potential Factors That Influence Team Identification: A Desire to be Similar or Different?
… rated how identified they were with both the underdog and favored team, regardless of their choice. It was hypothesized that those who are primed to experience the feelings of assimilation will wager more money on and be more highly identified with a team that is a prohibitive favorite. Also, …
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Influence of Outcome Expectancy on Optimisim, Pessimism, Anxiety and Self-Confidence in Collegiate Football Players
… often does (Chase & Lirgg, 1997). Often, the underdog, or unexpected winner, will defeat the more likely winner creating questions as to the validity of the expectancy theory. Psychological variables related to expectations may contribute to the ability of the underdog to succeed in unexpected …
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Factors That Influence Team Identification: Sport Fandom and the Need for Affiliation
… Identification Scales (SSIS), one for the underdog football team and one for the favored football team, to measure how identified they were with each team. Results indicated that the hypotheses were not supported. There were no significant differences between condition for the Fan Scale or …
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The full moon effect and the efficiency of point-spread betting in the NFL
… extending the existing literature on the home-underdog bias as well, as the late-season bias, new and significant contributions have been made. This study identifies bias in the lines that is occurring as a result of the lunar cycle. In particular, the home team is being consistently and …
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Feed the neighborhood : a recipe for neighborhood rejuvenation
… with a belief that it could be done. A true underdog story. The questions I aim to answer are: How were these neighborhoods turned around? What are the attributes and characteristics they all share? Essentially, what is the secret sauce to reviving a beat up neighborhood? I believe it is …
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The expression of George Orwell’s racial and social attitudes
… the seeds of heterodoxy and support for the underdog. He took to Burma two mutually incompatible forms of training: one urged him to serve the Empire, the other, eventually to oppose it. The crisis of Empire is discussed and how it coincided with an unsought personal crisis of Orwell's own as …
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The Traumatized/traumatizing Subject In Anna Deavere Smith, Suzan-Lori Parks, And August Wilson
… for communal healing to occur. Parks's <i>Topdog/Underdog, Venus,</i> and <i>The America Play</i> focus on individuals who succumb to the traumas they are psychically forced to relive. In contrast, Wilson's <i>Gem of the Ocean,</i> the first work in his "century cycle," offers an instance of …
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Tasha: A practice-based problematisation of Australian comedy cinema’s representation of gender, family and nationhood
… of quirkiness. It remains the domain of the underdog: the battlers, larrikins, and of course the ockers. It still carries the same messages; never forget who you are, who your friends and family are, or where you came from. Despite its unconventional narrative, subject matter, soundtrack and …