Peacemakers: Those Who Would Intervene to Quell a Sports Riot
(1998)

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Gordon W. Russell and Anu Mustonen

Personality and Individual Differences, 24, 335-339

Abstract

Male spectators (N = 129) attending a Finnish ice hockey game were asked to indicate their response to a fight erupting nearby in the stands. Fully 61.1% indicated they would watch, 26.2% would try to stop the fight, 5.6% would leave the area, 4.7% would encourage the fighters and 2.4% would join in. Peacemakers were compared with onlookers and found to be less physically aggressive. However, they were equally angry and impulsive and had equivalent histories of fighting. Compared with a category of troublemakers, peacemakers were less aggressive, angry and impulsive and were taller.

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