> The researchers had 35 male college students complete a competitive, aggressive task against either a student from their university or from what they were told was a rival university.
Male college students, an “aggressive task”, and a rival university.
College students are literally trained to associate out-competing rival universities as a fun and desirable activity. It’s the entire foundation of sports programs. This study feels like the authors tried to simulate a competitive sports program as closely as they could get away with in their lab environment and then tried to spin it as a profound observation about humanity in general.
This really just reads like “young male college students still enjoy competing against their rival university”
Male college students, an “aggressive task”, and a rival university.
College students are literally trained to associate out-competing rival universities as a fun and desirable activity. It’s the entire foundation of sports programs. This study feels like the authors tried to simulate a competitive sports program as closely as they could get away with in their lab environment and then tried to spin it as a profound observation about humanity in general.
This really just reads like “young male college students still enjoy competing against their rival university”