Team Sports Off the Field: Competing Excludes Cooperating for Individual but Not for Team Athletes

Both team and individual sports require competition, whereas cooperation is more prevalent in team than in individual sports. In particular, team athletes have to compete (for starting roles) while cooperating (for team success) with the same teammates. For team athletes, competition and cooperative...

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Main Authors: Florian Landkammer, Kevin Winter, Ansgar Thiel, Kai Sassenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02470/full