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Hoops and Coming of Age in Greek and Roman Antiquity

Dasen, Véronique

In: Toys and Material Culture. Hybridisation, Design and Consumption. 8th International Toy Research Association World Conference, 2019, p. 1-21

Ancient hoops, usually made of wood or metal, do not survive archaeologically, but literary and iconographic representations provide information regarding the materials used, ergonomics, as well as their symbolic and cultural values. Hoops were intimately associated with youth, especially male, and this paper aims at expanding the understanding of their collective, social and religious dimensions...

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Les "visages du sacré" dans le sport. : Approches sociologique et théologique d’un "prêtre-arbitre"

Amherdt, François-Xavier

In: Le sacré et ses doubles, coll. « Colloquium », 2014, p. 187-196

Même si la littérature sportive regorge de termes liturgiques ou sacrés, le sport n’est pas source de salut, il ne peut constituer la religion du 21e siècle. Il n’est ni meilleur ni pire que le reste de la société contemporaine (violence, argent, dopage, tricherie, vedettariat, nationalisme), mais il véhicule des valeurs qui peuvent ouvrir à une certaine forme de transcendance (esprit...

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A psycholinguistic investigation of football players’mental representations of game situations: Does expertise count?

Gygax, Pascal ; Wagner-Egger, Pascal ; Parris, Ben ; Seiler, Roland ; Hauert, Claude-Alain

In order to progress through a competitive sporting event, athletes need to form mental representations of the situations they encounter. In this paper, we present three experiments exploring the mental representations of football players when presented with written material describing football game situations. Experiment 1 assessed off-line processing by having players of different levels...

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Racism in soccer ? Perception of challenges of black and white players by white referees, soccer players, and fans.

Wagner-Egger, Pascal ; Gygax, Pascal ; Ribordy, Farfalla

This experiment investigated challenge evaluations in soccer and their relation to prejudice: more precisely, whether skin colour may influence judgements of soccer tackles. Three groups of participants (soccer players, referees and soccer fans) were asked to evaluate challenges, featuring Black and White players as aggressors and victims in a mixed-design study. Results showed that participants...