Healthy rivalry could boost sport and business performance

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 13:31 in Health & Medicine

New research shows that people can recover from poor performance when rivals comment on their failures. The research shows that while criticism from team members sends individuals into downward performance spirals, external criticism can be a trigger that boosts performance as people try to prove the outsiders wrong.

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