Sports fans compete with each other almost by reflex. Give a group of supporters a schedule, a whiteboard and a free afternoon, and within minutes someone has started a fantasy league, a bracket challenge or a running argument about who called last season’s playoff upset first. The habit says a lot about how fandom works as a social identity, and psychologists have been measuring it for half a century. Basking in a win you had nothing to do with…
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