Friday, January 24, 2025

Watching sports can be good for you—thanks to its social bonding effects

Being a sports fan, whether you’re watching top flight football, the Olympic games or your favorite local team, can be a rollercoaster ride. Incredible highs if you win, depressing lows if you don’t, and lots of stressful feelings in between. Thankfully, the overall impact should be a positive one because research has shown that people who watch sports experience greater well-being than those who don’t—and that this is probably linked to the social aspects of watching sport. By well-being we mean a person’s psychological state—how well someone feels. People with higher well-being tend to have better physical health and live Read More

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