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   Alfie Kohn (alfiekohn@sciences.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 00:28:31 JST Alfie Kohn

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   For years I've cited evidence showing that all of us ultimately lose when we're set against each other in competitions (https://is.gd/kkTiEM). Now, new data show how this is also true of our BELIEFS about competition: Zero-sum mindsets "stifle cooperation toward collective success."

   A series of 9 studies found that the belief that competition is necessary & inevitable "may help create the very scarcity & hostility that the zero-sum mindset expects from the world": https://www.researchgate.net/publication/386022536_The_zero-sum_mindset