Search for Immortality in Ancient and Modern Sport

Pisk, Jernej

doi:10.2478/v10141-012-0001-8

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“…It is possible that more serious athletes would not be as affected by MS because they are already close to maximally motivated. Alternatively, from a TMT perspective, athletes with ambitious goals may be even more motivated by reminders of mortality since at the professional level sport can provide people with symbolic immortality through fame and history making (e.g., Dechesne, Greenberg, Arndt, & Schimel, 2000;Greenberg & Weise, 2010;Lifton, 1979;Pisk, 2012;Schmitt & Leonard, 1986). Indeed, research shows that MS increases the desire for lasting fame (Greenberg, Kosloff, Solomon, Cohen, & Landau, 2010).…”

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He Dies, He Scores: Evidence That Reminders of Death Motivate Improved Performance in Basketball

Zestcott

Lifshin

Helm

et al. 2016

Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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This research applied insights from terror management theory (TMT; Greenberg, Pyszczynski, & Solomon, 1986) to the world of sport. According to TMT, self-esteem buffers against the potential for death anxiety. Because sport allows people to attain self-esteem, reminders of death may improve performance in sport. In Study 1, a mortality salience induction led to improved performance in a "one-on-one" basketball game. In Study 2, a subtle death prime led to higher scores on a basketball shooting task, which was associated with increased task related selfesteem. These results may promote our understanding of sport and provide a novel potential way to improve athletic performance.

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He Dies, He Scores: Evidence That Reminders of Death Motivate Improved Performance in Basketball

Zestcott

Lifshin

Helm

et al. 2016

Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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“…Claims that athletes are willing to die to win (an acceptance of the Goldman dilemma) are frequently cited within the sports-doping literature (e.g., Anderson, 2013;Gleason & Barnum, 1994;Neuberger, Jurkiewicz, Moser, & Simon, 2012;Pisk, 2012;Todd, 1987). Such claims have also been repeated in sport psychology textbooks (e.g., Weinberg & Gould,DYING TO WIN 14 2015).…”

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“…The Connor and Mazanov (2009) error that surveys were conducted biannually is further reproduced by Pisk (2012) and Anderson (2013). Moreover, Pisk claims that bodybuilders and athletes from combative and power sports were surveyed -information that has likely been incorrectly reproduced from Bamberger and Yaeger (1997).…”

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Dying to Win? The Goldman Dilemma in Legend and Fact

Moston

Hutchinson

Engelberg

2017

International Journal of Sport Communication

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One of the implicit justifications for antidoping is that athletes are so committed to winning that they will take performance-enhancing substances regardless of the apparent consequences. Athletes are alleged to be, quite literally, willing to die to win. Support for this claim usually centers on the results of research by physician Bob Goldman, in which athletes were asked to respond to a hypothetical dilemma in which they were offered spectacular success in their chosen sport, but at a heavy price: they would die after five years of glory. In this paper, we examine the origins of this bargain, now popularly referred to as the Goldman dilemma, finding that both the methodology and implications of the original work have repeatedly been described inaccurately in both popular and scientific writings. These errors reflect both poor scholarship and deliberate misuse, where the flawed narrative is used to justify contentious policy decisions.

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“…There are regular rituals, symbols, poems, strong group cohesion and relics. In both cases the option of achieving immortality is offered (Pisk, 2012). Here and there miracles happen, and after the fall it is possible to 'forgive sins' and start again from the beginning.…”

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Faith, hope and love in sport

Pisk¹

2017

Auc Kinanthropologica

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In the Christian religious tradition, theological virtues of faith, hope and love have a central role. Along with the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance they present the whole of the good human life. While cardinal virtues can be cultivated by human will, faith, hope and love are given by God and therefore open 'natural' human life on Earth toward transcendent spiritual realities. Human beings as bio-psycho-social and spiritual beings incorporate theological virtues in all the activities of their life. In sport, faith, hope and love have an important, though often neglected, role. On a practical level faith can be recognized in any relation between athlete and coach. To trust one's coach, without any guarantee that the outcome of prescribed workouts will lead to the desired results, needs strong faith, trust and confidence. Moreover, faith is the virtue that makes sport so attractive also for spectators even to the point of being a 'secular' religion for the masses. Hope is the virtue of 'not yet' or of something 'being on its way' . For most athletes, daily workouts are not a goal, but just the means to that end. Any reason for doing sports needs a hope behind it in order to move or will oneself to action. Along with hope, understood as a golden mean, we find despair on the one hand and 'false hope' on the other. Both are corruptions of hope seen daily in the world of sport. To manage hope in sport practices correctly offers a path to success in sport at all levels. Love is at the apex of the theological virtues. There are many formulations of love both in ancient Greek and Roman times: eros, agape, caritas, amor. Each has its special characteristic meaning also in sport. In sport we can see laughter and tears because any love is connected with highest human joy and deepest depression. Yet, in summation, it is argued that love in sport must be understood as the binding force and source of cooperation and fulfilled life for any athlete qua human being.

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Search for Immortality in Ancient and Modern Sport

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Cited by 6 publications

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He Dies, He Scores: Evidence That Reminders of Death Motivate Improved Performance in Basketball

He Dies, He Scores: Evidence That Reminders of Death Motivate Improved Performance in Basketball

Dying to Win? The Goldman Dilemma in Legend and Fact

Faith, hope and love in sport

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