Is There Really No Crying in Baseball? Examining the Acceptance of Crying in Sport

It is not uncommon to see tears shed by players on both the winning and losing teams, particularly after a championship game. However, sport is also seen as an environment where competitors go to “put their game faces on” and keep their emotions in check, such as during the film A League of Their Own, when a manager tells a sobbing player that “there is no crying in baseball!” The current study sought to examine the extent to which individuals agree with this perspective. Specifically, participants rated the acceptability of crying by males and females in both sport and non-sport scenarios. The results revealed different expectations for emotional reactions in sport as individuals were more accepting of crying in non-sport scenarios than in sport scenarios. Additionally persons with higher levels of restrictive emotionality were particularly likely to believe that crying in sport was not appropriate

“What’s on the Test?”: The Impact of Giving Students a Concept-List Study Guide

Students frequently request concept-list study guides prior to exams, but the benefits of instructors providing such resources are unclear. Research on memory and comprehension has suggested that some challenges in learning are associated with benefits to performance. In the context of an introductory psychology course, a study was conducted to investigate the impact of providing a concept-list study guide on exam performance, as opposed to having students create a study guide. Additionally, student preferences for various types of study guides were examined. Results indicated that although students greatly prefer that the instructors provide a study guide (as opposed to making their own), providing a concept-list study guide resulted in poorer exam performance. These results call for future research on the influence of study guides on student performance

The Experience of Sex Guilt: The Roles of Parenting, Adult Attachment, and Sociosexuality

Sociosexuality, comfort with sex outside the confines of a committed relationship, and parent–child dynamics have been associated with experiences of sex guilt. However, the mechanisms through which family dynamics are related to sociosexuality and sex guilt are still unclear. Using a developmental framework, in a cross-sectional study, we examined whether attachment styles and parent–child relationships would be associated with the development and maintenance of sociosexuality. We hypothesized that insecure attachment styles and sociosexuality would independently and positively mediate the relationship between parent–child relationship quality (accepting/rejecting) and sex guilt. Findings support past research and suggests that parental rejection predicts insecure attachments, which positively predicts unrestricted sociosexuality, and in turn, is negatively associated with sex guilt. This could suggest that sociosexuality may act as a buffer for sex guilt among this sample

Sports Fandom and Relationships: Perceptions of a significant other’s favorite sport team

Past studies have shown that similarities between couples relate to higher levels of attraction (Bryne, Clore, & Smeaton, 1986). Other studies have shown that couples who watch sports together have higher relationship satisfaction than couples that don\u27t (Roloff and Solomon, 1989). Due to these past findings, the researchers formed a hypothesis: People who perceive their partners as having the same favorite team will view them differently than those who perceive their partners having a different favorite team on different relationship satisfaction qualities. A convenient sample of 108 undergraduate students from a Midwestern university were surveyed regarding their fandom level, their favorite team, their significant other\u27s perceived favorite team, and measures regarding their relationship. We found that, overall, participants who perceived their partners as having the same favorite team viewed their partners as more intelligent and more attractive. However, differences in general relationship satisfaction was not significant