Abstract

Recent studies allowed us to describe cognitive styles that appear in the perception of incongruities, anomalies and transgression, with respect to expectations and commonly accepted rules. For example, acceptor subjects are characterized by playful search of anomalies, and perceptual facilitation toward them. Removers, on the contrary, show alarm, refuse and, in certain conditions, perceptual defence toward anomalies. We describe experimental instrument used to identify quickly subjects cathegories (BONAIUTO, GIANNINI ONAIUTO, 1987, 1989). We hipothesized that attitudes toward perceptual incongruities are connected with more general attitudes toward behavioral anomalies, included sport behavior anomalies: like inefficency, clumsiness, negligence, fraud, doping, violence, etc. Consequently, we administered a questionnaire describing 40 anomalies in sport (slight, medium and grave), to approve or disapprove. With this inventory we examined 24 acceptors, 24 removers and 24 control group subjects. Statistical analysis of the results shows that acceptors are those subjects who disapprove less, while removers show the more intense disapprovation toward behaviours contradicting genuine sport physiognomy. Perspectives of such kind of studies are discussed. Verf.-Referat