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Professor Gavin Kilduff's joint research on the impact of rivalry on performance is featured

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "The authors, Brian Pike and Adam Galinsky of Columbia University and Gavin Kilduff of New York University, studied 34 seasons of NCAA men’s basketball tournaments, as well as postseasons in the NBA, NFL, NHL and Major League Baseball to analyze how success of a team’s rival impacted the team’s future performance. Their findings showed that a strong performance by a team’s rival was positively associated with an uptick in the team’s performance in the following postseason."

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