Publications

Publication details [#53447]

Westerman, David and Ron Tamborini. 2010. Scriptedness and Televised Sports: Violent Consumption and Viewer Enjoyment. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 29 (3) : 321–337.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

affect | aggression | expectation | sports language | written language

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study reveals that sport violence enhances hostile expectation bias merely in the scripted condition, and that delight is also influenced by scriptedness and violence, since violent nonscripted sports are more rejoiced than all other conditions.