Say, local sports fans: It’s so much better to BIRG than CORF, right?
But jumping from one to the other can create issues, psychologists say.
Royals rooters are learning now. If sports-fan research is correct, many spent the bulk of 29 years CORFing — “cutting off reflected failure,” which is what social scientists call the impulse to distance one’s self from woeful teams.
Yet for most of 2015, these same fans have been BIRGing, or “basking in reflected glory,” a state in which they tend to say “we won” rather than “they lost.”
BIRG and CORF.