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Any sports activity where two or more players cooperate towards achieving a common objective while they compete against an opposing team. Some examples of team sports include, but are not limited to; soccer, baseball, basketball, American football, hockey, volleyball, and handball.
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Poliakoff (1987) defined sport as “an activity requiring direct physical competition with an opponent(s), has established procedures and rules, and defined criteria for determining victory” (as cited in Lombardo 2012). The direct goal of a sporting engagement is winning the activity regardless of any other extrinsic rewards that follow the victory, such as earning a trophy or a medal; hence, the core nature of the competition still remains unchanged (Lombardo 2012). Whether conceptualized as functional integrated “super-organisms” (Duarte et al. 2012), complex social networks (Ribeiro et al. 2017), or stripped-down to examine...
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Shialos, M. (2018). Team Sport. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1075-1
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