Name: This Is Your Brain on Sports
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Author: L. Jon Wertheim and Sam Sommers

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Chapter 1 Your Brain Was Built for This

Wearing your team's jersey literally changes how you think and perform on unrelated tasks. Home-field advantage is mostly about referees subconsciousl…

Chapter 2 The Jersey on Your Back 🔒

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Chapter 3 Why the Crowd Controls the Refs 🔒

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Chapter 4 The Hot Hand Is Real and Isn't 🔒

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Chapter 5 Losing Hurts More Than Winning Feels Good 🔒

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Chapter 6 Rewire Your Fandom Without Losing the Fire 🔒

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Chapter 7 We Were Always This Way 🔒

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This Is Your Brain on Sports

You boo a ref you've never met. You feel physically sick

when your team loses. You believe in jinxes. None of this

makes logical sense, and yet here you are. Wertheim and

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