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Look at Winners Aggression over Losers is 'Study of the Day'

victorJoint research conducted by Dr. Brad Bushman and French colleagues Dominique Muller, Baptiste Subra and Emmanuelle Ceaux on how winning makes the victors more aggressive toward the "losers," was selected as "Study of the Day" in The Atlantic.

The article discusses how many assume winners are gracious, while losers tend to be sore about their defeat, but the study shows those who thought they won in both tasks tended to blast their defeated partners the longest and loudest.

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