Summary “Never change a winning team” is a well-known heuristic that recommends not altering the composition of successful teams. Using game-level observations of the highest German soccer league over a period of seven seasons, we find that the number of changes in the starting line-up is...

Teams have become increasingly multinational in many sectors. The impact of national diversity on team performance is controversial, however. On the one hand, multinational teams may have access to a greater variety of task-relevant expertise, which should increase team performance. On the other...

Scenario studies in social psychology have shown that more negative feelings are attributed to negative outcomes following abnormal behavior than to the same negative outcomes caused by normal behavior. This study employs field data to test whether individuals avoid unconventional behavior in...