Why rival football fans can see the same game differently - Whose Truth? BBC World Service

Arsenal v Newcastle United... Liverpool v Nottingham Forest... How can rival football fans watch the same foul, or goal, and see it completely differently?
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Two neuroscientists reveal how confirmation bias and group bias shape our reality. Dr Itiel Dror explains how our experiences and expectations impact our perception. And Prof Tim Andrews, University of York, reveals what happened when a group of Manchester United and Chelsea fans had their brains scanned while watching games between the two sides.
Our unconscious biases can be amplified by social media, particularly when platforms offer us connections and content based on our groups. According to Nobel Prize laureate Maria Ressa, this can lead to 'tribalism'. So is there a way to override them?
With thanks to Prof Dr Emilie Caspar from the Moral and Social Brain lab at Ghent University, Belgium.
This content was created as a co-production between Nobel Prize Outreach and the BBC. Watch more videos in the playlist 👉🏽 • Whose Truth?
00:00 Introduction
00:14 Newcastle one, Arsenal nil - the fan view
00:40 Confirmation bias
02:17 Group bias
02:29 Liverpool v Nottingham Forest - the fan view
03:19 Chelsea and Manchester United football fans brain scan study
03:50 The results
04:10 "Tribalism" and social media
05:15 Can we override our cognitive biases?
Further information:
Neural Correlates of Group Bias During Natural Viewing: academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
Cognitive and Human Factors in Expert Decision Making: Six Fallacies and the Eight Sources of Bias: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs....
Linear Sequential Unmasking-Expanded (LSU-E): A general approach for improving decision making as well as minimizing noise and bias: www.sciencedirect.com/science...
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[@Lovely-DeeM]

The answer is very simple, it is because they allow their feelings to color their view and perspective, whoever they are rooting for to win must win. I still like to watch the world cup, because I find it exciting, but I was never emotionally invested in it (to me it is just a nice/entertaining and sometimes exciting game).
When I was young, my dad used to watch the world cup religiously and call me to watch with him (so I learned to like the game) - but whichever team he liked, the rival team could do nothing right. My dad would be yelling at the screen lol, and yelling at the referee for giving any fouls or yellow card or red card to any members of the team he liked, he sometimes would be yelling at the team members for not playing as they should lol. Now that he is older he has significantly calmed down, and views the teams in a more balanced way, even though he still has favorites. I also still have favorites but that never colored my view, I guess because I was never emotionally invested in the game.

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Thank you for sharing.

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[@lawrencemaweu]

That what life is about...perspective

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