Success can make people learn less from their own mistakes, study suggests

Success can make people learn less from their own mistakes, study suggests

Success is usually seen as the best possible outcome for any team. Whether it is a football match, a business project or a classroom assignment, achieving the goal is generally taken as a sign that everything went well. But new research suggests that success may sometimes have an unexpected downside. Researchers have found that when a team succeeds, individuals may learn less from their own mistakes than when the team fails—even if they made exa…