Why We Root for the Underdog and Relish the Downfall of the Elite

The dance between empathy, entitlement, and the eternal cycle of success and downfall

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We humans have a curious relationship with success and failure, triumph and defeat. One of the aspects of our psychology that fascinates me is our tendency to rally behind the underdog, rooting them on to greater…