The impact of dynamic status changes within competitive rank-ordered hierarchies.

ABSTRACT: Jockeying and competing for higher status is an inherent feature of rank-ordered hierarchies. Despite theoretically acknowledging rank changes within hierarchies, the extant literature has ignored the role of competitors' dynamic movements on a focal actor's resulting behavior. By using a dynamic lens to examine these movement in competitive situations, we examine how positive change in a competitor's rank-that is, positive status momentum-affects a focal actor's psychology and resulting performance. We consider the real-world contexts of 5.2 million observations of chess tournaments and 117,762 observations of professional tennis players and find that a focal actor's performance in both cognitive and physical competitions is negatively impacted when facing a competitor with positive momen

SUBMITTER: Kakkar H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6859348 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature