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LIT-1147: Enemies with benefits: the dual role of rivalry in shaping sports fans' identity

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StatusActive — read in full 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1303) from the authors' accepted manuscript in the Hochschule Hannover repository (CC BY-NC-ND); worth reading as the structural model showing rivalry's two faces for fans, less regard from the rival's fans and more in-group distinctiveness, cohesion and regard from others, with the gains carried by perceived reciprocity of the rivalry rather than disidentification. One cross-sectional sample, N = 571, with fans who named no rival excluded. Source of THEORY-1113.
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Tagssocial-science, social-ontology, social-identity
Cited as “paper” byNOTE-1303 — Enemies with benefits: the dual role of rivalry in shaping sports fans' identity
Cited as “source” byTHEORY-1113 — In team-sport fandom, perceived rivalry intensity lowers fans' sense of being respected by the rival's fans but raises their sense of in-group distinctiveness and cohesion, and these gains run through the perception that the rivalry is reciprocated, not through disidentification with the rival

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Berendt, J. & Uhrich, S. (2016). European Sport Management Quarterly 16(5):613–634.

Read in full in NOTE-1303, from the authors’ accepted manuscript.

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A6 of the exchange of 2026-10-16, for the rivalry case (CASE-098). Evidence that rivalry bears on identity, not that the rivalry is a unit.

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