Study finds reports of domestic violence rise 10 percent after NFL upsets
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 04:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Calls to the police reporting men's assaults on their wives or intimate partners rose 10 percent in areas where the local National Football League team lost a game they were favored to win, according to an analysis of 900 regular-season NFL games reports researchers in a paper in the Quarterly Journal of Economics.