Question

At a college basketball game, joe finds himself doing the wave and yelling more than he has ever done in his life. according to louis zurcher's work on emotions in society, why is joe acting like this at a game when he never does such things in his home life?

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: Emotional script

Emotional script refers to a set of emotions that people would biologically/naturally resorted to under specific situations.

In high pressure situation such as basketball game, people's emotional script usually would be as close as it gets to when we're in battlefield.
Waving and Yelling is used communicate with our trusted partner and to hype ourselves up in order to increase our adrenaline.