Consequences of Rivalry

Motivation and task performance the dependent measures that have historically attracted the most attention from psychological researchers of competition.

It is a positive link between rivalry and motivation: in realworld contests against known rivals will push competitors to succeed.

 Feelings of rivalry toward ones competition leads to increased performance on effort-based tasks.

Participants are induced to compete with people they have never met before and may see little reason to compete against

In general, however, performance on effort-based tasks should be similarly enhanced by intergroup and interorganizational rivalry.