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

1 Faculty News June 26, 2018 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [*The Wall Street Journal*](https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-question-dividing-u-s-soccer-fans-is-it-ok-to-root-for-mexico-1530043225) -- "The authors, Brian Pike and Adam Galinsky of Columbia University and [Gavin Kilduff ](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/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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