Why the upstarts have a head start
Niro Sivanathan’s research finds that changes in status impact our performance – and that good news for our competitors is bad news for us
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In 30 seconds:
‘We saw it time and time again – expert players losing against lower-ranked players with strong status momentum. This isn’t an incidental observation; it was over millions and millions of games'