The reinforcing nature of social identity-driven processes: Evidence using the ear methodology and a multilevel approach

The ways in which teammates interact with one another meaningfully shapes their sport experiences. In the current research, we leveraged an ambulatory ecological assessment tool known as the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR) to non-obtrusively document the acoustic nature of athletes' social environments. Guided by a social identity approach, we generated and tested the novel hypothesis that when athletes receive signals from teammates...