How watching sports shapes zero-sum thinking: Correlational, experimental, and longitudinal evidence.

= 830) conducted in the United States and India, we find that watching and following sports is both correlationally and causally associated with zero-sum thinking. These effects extend beyond sports contexts to shape attitudes toward immigrants and a distributive (win-lose) orientation in negotiation. Together, our findings reveal how sports engagement can systematically influence social cognition and broader worldviews. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).