US researchers explain that exposure to exceptional performance can breed 'exemplary discouragement', pushing us away from wanting to be successful. …'Being exposed to peers' excellent performance makes people feel less capable of performing at the level of those peers. This changed belief appears to decrease student performance.' 'Discouragement by peer excellence has theoretical implications for work on social judgement, social comparison, and reference bias and has practical implications for interventions that induce social comparisons.'
*I'm kidding, of course. Sort of.
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