Monday, June 10, 2013

Superstitions in baseball.

1. I had a lot of fun writing this researched paper and leaned a lot from the topic that I chose. Not only did i learn about baseball and sports more than I already knew but i learned about superstitions and how crazy they can be. I wish I would have known that the library database is only one of the many data bases you could use. i would have used way more to expand my search of scholarly articles. I would have taken it a bit more serious and started at the time it was assigned. Take it step by step and don't try to rush it because then it would be a paper with a lot of different ideas. Fully think it out and have an interest in sports and also superstitions.
2. My researched question was " Is baseball the most superstitious sport?Why?"

All these art scholarly articles that I used and were really helpful. All can be found in the CSULA data base under the keywords superstitions in baseball or in sports.

Abbott, Kevin R, and Thomas N Sherratt. "The Evolution of Superstition Through Optimal Use of Incomplete Information." Animal Behaviour, 82.1 (2011): 85-92.

Burger, Jerry M., and Amy L. Lynn. "Superstitious Behavior Among American And Japanese Professional Baseball Players." Basic & Applied Social Psychology 27.1 (2005): 71-76. Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text. Web. 10 June 2013

Connelly, Jack. "Ever Tinkering With Change." World & I 13.4 (1998): 183.Military & Government Collection. Web. 10 June 2013

McClearn, Duane G. "Interest in Sports and Belief in Sports Superstitions."Psychological Reports, 94.3 Pt 1 (2004): 1043.

Ono, K. "Superstitious Behavior in Humans." Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 47.3 (1987): 261-271.


Wann, Daniel L. "Understanding The Positive Social Psychological Benefits Of Sport Team Identification: The Team Identification-Social Psychological Health Model." Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, And Practice 10.4 (2006): 272-296. PsycARTICLES. Web. 10 June 2013

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