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However, in the mid-nineties of the last century research donebased on an analysis of the emotions of athletes at the Barcelona Olympics, showed that bronze medalists experienced more positive emotions than silver medalists—although, of course, gold medalists were the happiest.
The most popular explanation is that silver medalists use a specific type of “counterfactual thinking”—that is, they regret not achieving what they might have achieved if they had just tried a little harder.
Third-place finishers, on the other hand, compare themselves to those who finished lower and feel relieved that they managed to win a medal at all.
in 2012 at the London Olympics research doneseemed to support this explanation—the better the gold and bronze medalists performed, the happier they appeared to be.
But that wasn’t the case with the runners-up – perhaps because the better their performance, the more they regretted not winning.
Following a study of athletes at the Rio de Janeiro Olympicsfound that there was little difference in happiness scores between silver and bronze medalists, but analysis of post-competition conversations confirmed that it was actually very disappointing to finish second, with silver medalists talking much more often about what they could have achieved.
Parengta pagal „BBC Science Focus“.
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