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The 2016 Euro Cup final memory footprint : a test-retest study of flashbulb memory, event memory and national team fandom
| Resumo: | For the very first time, Portugal won the UEFA European Championship in 2016, an unexpected, emotional, and important victory for several people in the country. This type of international sport competitions promotes social unity by reinforcing national identity and giving citizens the chance to be part of a group that embraces it, notably, one of national team fandom. A total of 47 participants completed both an initial online questionnaire (two years after the match) and a follow-up questionnaire (four years after the match). The surveys assessed participants’ flashbulb memories (FBMs), event memories (EMs), and their possible determinants such as emotional intensity, importance, surprise, rehearsal, prior knowledge and interest in football. Besides contrasting FBMs and EMs longitudinally, asserting valence’s role on EM maintenance through two sub-events, one negative, Ronaldo’s injury, and one positive, Éder’s goal, and the role national team fandom plays on both types of memory were also aims of the present study. National team fandom was not associated with FBM’s attributes but was found to predict EM’s accuracy and confidence. Two years after the 1st survey, EMs were more detailed for the negative sub-event and less accurate, while EMs for the positive sub-event, even if less detailed, remained equally accurate. This finding underscores the existence of a positivity bias in EM. Lastly, FBMs were found to still yield high confidence and vividness levels and be more consistent and detailed than EMs, further validating their status as a special kind of memory. |
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| Autores principais: | Marques, Maria Margarida Simões |
| Assunto: | Memórias Emoção Futebol Fãs Dissertações de mestrado - 2021 |
| Ano: | 2021 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | For the very first time, Portugal won the UEFA European Championship in 2016, an unexpected, emotional, and important victory for several people in the country. This type of international sport competitions promotes social unity by reinforcing national identity and giving citizens the chance to be part of a group that embraces it, notably, one of national team fandom. A total of 47 participants completed both an initial online questionnaire (two years after the match) and a follow-up questionnaire (four years after the match). The surveys assessed participants’ flashbulb memories (FBMs), event memories (EMs), and their possible determinants such as emotional intensity, importance, surprise, rehearsal, prior knowledge and interest in football. Besides contrasting FBMs and EMs longitudinally, asserting valence’s role on EM maintenance through two sub-events, one negative, Ronaldo’s injury, and one positive, Éder’s goal, and the role national team fandom plays on both types of memory were also aims of the present study. National team fandom was not associated with FBM’s attributes but was found to predict EM’s accuracy and confidence. Two years after the 1st survey, EMs were more detailed for the negative sub-event and less accurate, while EMs for the positive sub-event, even if less detailed, remained equally accurate. This finding underscores the existence of a positivity bias in EM. Lastly, FBMs were found to still yield high confidence and vividness levels and be more consistent and detailed than EMs, further validating their status as a special kind of memory. |
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