Yankees Fans: How Far Away Is Fenway Park?
Love this:
“Fans of the New York Yankees perceive Fenway Park, home of the archrival Boston Red Sox, to be closer to New York City than is Camden Yards, home of the Baltimore Orioles [even though that's not actually the case], a study by New York University psychologists has found. Their research, which appears in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, shows how social categorization, collective identification, and identity threat work in concert to shape our representations of the physical world.” Read more here.
Our thoughts and emotions shape how the world looks to us.