# Professor Gavin Kilduff's research on the impact of rivalry is highlighted

1 Faculty News July 20, 2015 ![Sports Illustrated logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/sportsillustrated.jpg?itok=-GZG0IG-)>

Excerpt from [Sports Illustrated](http://www.si.com/more-sports/2015/07/20/brain-sports-podcast-rivalries) -- "Wertheim and Sommers discuss the definition of rivalries, partly based on a study led by New York University Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations [Gavin Kilduff](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/gavin-kilduff), titled 'The psychology of rivalry: a relationally dependent analysis of competition,' which investigates the idea that teams’ similarity and histories can predict rivalry, and that rivalry may affect athletes’ motivation and performance. Can a person have an unrequited rival? Or are rivalries actually quite symmetrical?"

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