Learn why it's so easy to get excited and sing along at the stadium

The World Cup mobilizes the world over, with millions of people stopping their routines to at least watch their national teams' games. But there are still true sports aficionados who plan vacations to see all the games at home or even travel to live the experience of the event.

Those who usually go to football stadiums know that the mood is completely different from what you feel on the couch: the crowd and the reporters are moving, the teams going on the pitch and everyone singing along to the songs that encourage the team to win the match.

During World Cup matches, the audience does not always sing as in a Brazilian Championship game, but when watching the national team's match, it is very likely that excitement will take over, and the choir will begin, however simple. whatever.

Singing together is the secret

Although it seems that everything is part of the show, all this excitement has scientific explanation. In fact, singing together is worth more than painting your own body in the colors of your country. Eiluned Pearce, an experimental psychologist, explained in an interview with Inverse that singing together is a connecting behavior because “it is always performed in sync and involves some muscular effort, and these attributes have already been linked to social affiliation and the release of chemicals in the brain. called endorphins, which seem to underpin the social bonding process. ”

Thus, when you are in a stadium and sing with the crowd, you end up participating in a process in which you approach other people as a group, increasing social ties. This is not to say that you will become the fan's best friend by your side, but the attitude provides a sense of well-being and happiness. Watching a game at the stadium also makes you more likely to get in the mood and get excited with the crowd, which is predictable and has also been proven through research.

Just in the palms

OK, not everyone knows the songs, or even with the satisfaction of singing along, you may feel intimidated that you're not used to it. No problems! Clapping in sync with the crowd also reinforces social ties. This is because we tend to seek social synchronicity; that is, as humans, we naturally synchronize our movements with those of close people, flooding the brain with good sensations.

A famous case in which this happens is the Icelandic crowd, made famous for their "Viking war cry" made after the games. In it, fans and players clap their hands in sync, creating a very exciting effect. In the video below, you can see the execution of the moves when the team returned after their elimination in Euro 2016.

Heard from Ipiranga

Other interesting research looked at how the players sang the anthems of their countries before the match. The data were obtained in the Euro 2016, and the result reflected the expected. Those who dedicated themselves to the hymn with will and passion carried fewer goals than those who sang it more naturally.

Now the question is: before the match against Germany in 2014 did the Brazilian national team players sing the hymn with enough will?

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