Fans: How Watching Sports Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Understanding - Hardcover
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of how games, teams, and the communities dedicated to them are vital to our lives. Citing fascinating new studies on sports fandom, Larry Olmsted makes the case that the more you identify with a sports team, the better your social, psychological, and physical health is; the more meaningful your relationships are; and the more connected and happier you are. Fans maintain better cognitive processing as their gray matter ages; they have better language skills; and college students who follow sports have higher GPAs, better graduation rates, and higher incomes after graduating. And there's more: On a societal level, sports help us heal after tragedies, providing community and hope when we need it most. Fans is the perfect gift for anyone who loves sports or anyone who loves someone who loves sports. "Olmsted opens a window into a psychologically compelling world of passion and purpose."
--Harvey Araton, author of Our Last Season: A Writer, a Fan, a Friendship
Fans: How Watching Sports Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Understanding - Hardcover
$25.95
by Larry Olmsted (Author)
A New York Times bestselling and award-winning journalist uses cutting-edge sports research to make the case for why being a fan is good for us individually and is a force for positive change in our society.
Larry Olmsted's writing and research have been called "eye-opening" (People), "impressive" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), and "enlightening" (Kirkus Reviews). Now, the New York Times and Washington Post bestselling author turns his expertise to a subject that has never been fully explored, delivering a highly entertaining game changer that uses brand-new research to show us why being a sports fan is good for us individually and is a force for positive change in society. Fans is a passionate reminderof how games, teams, and the communities dedicated to them are vital to our lives. Citing fascinating new studies on sports fandom, Larry Olmsted makes the case that the more you identify with a sports team, the better your social, psychological, and physical health is; the more meaningful your relationships are; and the more connected and happier you are. Fans maintain better cognitive processing as their gray matter ages; they have better language skills; and college students who follow sports have higher GPAs, better graduation rates, and higher incomes after graduating. And there's more: On a societal level, sports help us heal after tragedies, providing community and hope when we need it most. Fans is the perfect gift for anyone who loves sports or anyone who loves someone who loves sports. "Olmsted opens a window into a psychologically compelling world of passion and purpose."
--Harvey Araton, author of Our Last Season: A Writer, a Fan, a Friendship
Author Biography
Larry Olmsted is an award-winning journalist and visiting professor of at Dartmouth College, where he teaches nonfiction writing. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Real Food Fake Food and Getting into Guinness, a history of the Guinness Book of World Records, a book for which he broke three world records himself while researching. He currently writes popular online columns for Forbes and USAToday, and he is the contributing travel editor for Cigar Aficionado magazine. Olmsted has been a panelist or guest speaker at many conferences and appears regularly on television and radio. He is avid fan of American Ninja Warrior and a fan of sports fans.
Number of Pages: 320
Dimensions: 1.2 x 7.2 x 5.4 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: March 02, 2021
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