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		<title>Failure at the World Cup</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>All triumphant athletes look alike, but do all distraught and disappointed ones? In past blogs, we have noted frequent observations of the universal “triumphant” pose amongst victors in sports competitions, but sports reveal other universal poses as well. For instance, as David Gendelman writes for The New York Times, this summer’s World Cup helps showcase&#8230;</p>
The post <a href="https://www.humintell.com/2018/07/failure-at-the-world-cup/">Failure at the World Cup</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.humintell.com">Humintell | Master the Art of Reading Body Language</a>.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="p1"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-34757" src="https://www.humintell.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/FIFA_World_Cup_Russia_2018_logo_football_soccer-273x300.png" alt="" width="273" height="300" srcset="https://www.humintell.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/FIFA_World_Cup_Russia_2018_logo_football_soccer-273x300.png 273w, https://www.humintell.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/FIFA_World_Cup_Russia_2018_logo_football_soccer-600x660.png 600w, https://www.humintell.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/FIFA_World_Cup_Russia_2018_logo_football_soccer-768x845.png 768w, https://www.humintell.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/FIFA_World_Cup_Russia_2018_logo_football_soccer-931x1024.png 931w" sizes="(max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px" />All triumphant athletes look alike, but do all distraught and disappointed ones?</p>
<p class="p1">In <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.humintell.com/2018/02/universal-olympian-triumph/"><span class="s1">past blogs</span></a></span>, we have noted frequent observations of the universal “triumphant” pose amongst victors in sports competitions, but sports reveal other universal poses as well. For instance, as David Gendelman <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/sports/world-cup/england-croatia-france-belgium.html"><span class="s1">writes for <i>The New York Times</i></span></a></span>, this summer’s World Cup helps showcase a similar “disappointed pose.”</p>
<p class="p1">Mr. Gendelman noticed that athlete after athlete reacted with the same pose to a missed goal: a look of shock accompanied by the perplexed raising of both arms to clutch the back of the head. If you’ve been watching the games, I’d imagine you immediately recognized it!</p>
<p class="p1">This inspired him to ask psychologists and other professionals about this phenomenon, such as Dr. Jessica Tracy from the University of British Columbia. Dr. Tracy emphasized that clutching the head indicated shame but also that “the constriction of the body, in the way that the player is moving his arms around his head, almost to make himself smaller. Those are very classical shame display elements.”</p>
<p class="p1">She went on to describe the gesture as conveying a message of failure to fellow teammates: “I get it and I’m sorry, therefore you don’t have to kick me out of the group, you don’t have to kill me.”</p>
<p class="p1">Dr. Tracy actually published similar findings with Humintell’s Dr. David Matsumoto in their <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18695237"><span class="s1">2008 study of blind Olympians</span></a>.</span> Through this research, they found that athletes exhibited both triumphant and shameful expressions upon victory or defeat. While we have focused on the triumphant poses in other blogs, the universality of shameful expressions across blind and sighted athletes of different cultures suggests a poignant universality to these gestures as well.</p>
<p class="p1">Other psychologists situated this gesture deeper in our evolutionary history, which shouldn’t be surprising to <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.humintell.com/2017/04/our-emotional-eyes/"><span class="s1">followers of this blog</span></a></span>. Dr. Dacher Keltner, of the University of California, Berkeley, sees this gesture as rooted in defense of one’s head: “The oldest kind of behavioral intention in that class of behaviors is to protect your head from blows.”</p>
<p class="p1">This observation certainly fits with the idea that triumphant and shameful gestures serve as a sort of message to others in the group. This connects to <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.humintell.com/2018/06/universal-or-just-deceptive-emotions/"><span class="s1">research presented in a past blog</span></a></span> that sees universal emotions as rooted in their function as a form of social communication.</p>
<p class="p1">Dr. Keltner’s point is further supported by the fact that many fellow athletes, as well as their fans, will mimic the same gesture upon watching the game. There is a strong group component here. Not only is the gesture universal, but it is also something taken up by those who empathize with and share the emotion.</p>
<p class="p1">The World Cup serves as a great source of entertainment and as a showcase of athletic prowess, but it also reveals a lot about human psychology. Like the Olympics, the cross-cultural nature of such an international event lets us see what is deeply common about the psychologies of people across cultures.</p>
<p class="p1">This is just a start however, as <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.humintell.com/intelliculture/"><span class="s1">Humintell has focused</span></a> </span>on how deeply these cultural similarities (and differences) impact our ability to read people and understand their diverse perspectives.</p>The post <a href="https://www.humintell.com/2018/07/failure-at-the-world-cup/">Failure at the World Cup</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.humintell.com">Humintell | Master the Art of Reading Body Language</a>.]]></content:encoded>
					
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