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Schadenfreude Is Motivation
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In America, where sports betting is a huge industry but nobody wants to treat it as if it's legitimate, we don't get stories like this, but in New Zealand, where it's legal, when somebody betsNZ$130,000 against the home team All Blacks in the Rugby World Cup, it's news. And the topic that comes to mind is whether, if you're a player who knows that somebody has put a huge amount of money on you losing, is that the kind of bulletin board motivation you need to overperform? If you know somebody stands to lose a fortune if you do well, are you just that much more incentivized to play the game of your life? (New Zealand Herald)
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