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rival good is a type of good that may only be possessed or consumed by a single user. These items can be durable, meaning they may only be used one at a time, or nondurable, meaning they are destroyed after consumption, allowing only one user to enjoy it.
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The New York Times recently argued that the U.S. would be better at soccer if only we cheated more. Like it or not, you have to master the art of the dive to be competitive at the international level, and we seem just a bit reluctant to flop around at just the merest of nudges. This stoicism may come from our Puritan roots, but perhaps having more rivalries (beyond our traditional one with Mexico) would ignite our most effective play, flops and all. New research suggests that rivalries lead people to do whatever it takes to win.
A rivalry is more than just a competition, according to Gavin Kilduff, a professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business (who’s currently in Rio for the World Cup). It typically emerges when competitors are similar, when they face off repeatedly, and when they’re about evenly matched. When these circumstances are present, they can lend a given competitive event a psychological weight that goes well beyond its tangible stakesturnincreased scores on the Machiavellianism scale. The subject’s personalities shifted merely from four non-face-to-face encounters with an anonymous opponent. No prize was even at stake.