An Evolutionary Look at Football Soccer Celebration

Football can be considered a symbolic struggle in which humans use behavioral mechanisms that evolved in hominid clans. Women, children and the elder are notably absent in most football violence. My observation of 50 groups celebrating 2014 World Cup results on the Costa Rican streets found that bot...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Monge, Julián
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Costa Rica
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/40028
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/40028
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:sociobiology of football
evolutionary psychology of football
soccer
Descripción
Sumario:Football can be considered a symbolic struggle in which humans use behavioral mechanisms that evolved in hominid clans. Women, children and the elder are notably absent in most football violence. My observation of 50 groups celebrating 2014 World Cup results on the Costa Rican streets found that both sexes and all age groups participated equally, probably because group participation on the streets was safe, with violence concentrated in stadiums and inside homes.