A Proposal for Facilitating More Cooperation in Competitive Sports / George M. Jacobs, Jiexin Teh and Leonora Spencer.
This article utilises theories, methods and tools from the fields of Social Psychology and Education to suggest new metrics for the analysis of competitive sport. The hope is that these metrics will encourage cooperation to exist alongside of the dominant feelings of competition. The main theory fro...
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| Summary: | This article utilises theories, methods and tools from the fields of Social Psychology and Education to suggest new metrics for the analysis of competitive sport. The hope is that these metrics will encourage cooperation to exist alongside of the dominant feelings of competition. The main theory from Social Psychology involved here is Social Interdependence Theory, which offers insights into what leads people to want to promote the success of others, i.e., to feel positively interdependent. The main method from Education is cooperative learning, which implements insights from Social Interdependence Theory to encourage students to feel positively interdependent towards classmates and others. The main tool from Education is ipsative assessment, which compares people's performance, not with that of others or with a standard, but with their own previous performance. Examples are provided from both sport and classroom learning. |
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