An international survey of perceptions of the 2014 FIFA World Cup: National levels of corruption as a context for perceptions of institutional corruption

John Nezlek (1) , David Newman (2) , Astrid Schütz (3) , Roy Baumeister (4) , Joanna Schug (1) , Mohsen Joshanloo (5) , Paulo Lopes (6) , Nicholas Alt (7) , Marzena Cypryańska (8) , Marco Depietri (3) , Oleg Gorbaniuk (9) , Pascal Huguet (10, 11) , Konstantinos Kafetsios (12) , Selda Koydemir (3) , Peter Kuppens (13) , Sanghee Park (14) , Alvaro San Martin (15) , Juliette Schaafsma (16) , Dora Simunovic (17) , Kunihiro Yokota (18)

1 WM - College of William and Mary [Williamsburg]
2 USC - University of Southern California
3 University of Bamberg
4 UQ [All campuses : Brisbane, Dutton Park Gatton, Herston, St Lucia and other locations] - The University of Queensland
5 Keimyung University
6 Catholic University of Portugal
7 UC - University of California
8 University of Social Sciences and Humanities
9 KUL - John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
10 LPC - Laboratoire de psychologie cognitive
11 LAPSCO - Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive
12 UOC - University of Crete [Heraklion]
13 KU Leuven - Catholic University of Leuven = Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
14 Chungbuk National University
15 University of Navarra
16 Tilburg University [Tilburg]
17 Jacobs University = Constructor University [Bremen]
18 The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

We conducted a survey about the 2014 FIFA World Cup that measured attitudes about FIFA, players, and officials in 18 languages with 4600 respondents from 29 countries. Sixty percent of respondents perceived FIFA officials as being dishonest, and people from countries with less institutional corruption and stronger rule of law perceived FIFA officials as being more corrupt and less competent running the tournament than people from countries with more corruption and weaker rule of law. In contrast, respondents evaluated players as skilled and honest and match officials as competent and honest. We discuss the implications of our findings for perceptions of corruption in general.

Mots clés: Sports; Contract law; Surveys; Governments; Law enforcement; Sensory perception; Games; United States

Domaines: Psychologie

John Nezlek, David Newman, Astrid Schütz, Roy Baumeister, Joanna Schug, et al.. An international survey of perceptions of the 2014 FIFA World Cup: National levels of corruption as a context for perceptions of institutional corruption. PLoS ONE, 2019, 14 (9), pp.e0222492. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0222492⟩. ⟨hal-02415439⟩