“…Therefore, a significant amount of sponsorship literature included attitude toward the brand and regarded it as one of the main sponsorship effects. Attitude toward the brand was influenced by many variables, including sport fandom (Ko, et al, 2008), exposure frequency (Lee & Pedersen, 2011), image congruence between an endorser and a sponsoring brand (Mazodier & Merunka, 2012), and additional sports fan demographic variables such as gender (McDaniel & Kinney, 1998). In addition, sensation seeking affected communication effects in sensational and violent marketing communications.…”