In the field experiment, the researchers divided batches of new call agents into an individual identity group, an organizational identity group, and a control group.

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As with the field experiment, some participants were placed in a control group, others engaged in activities that stressed individuality (creating personalized nametags, for example), and some focused on the identity of the organization (such as creating a logo for the research lab).

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His thought experiment suggests that researchers in the small but potentially significant field of quantum computing should be turning their attentions to game theory.

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This experiment is one of a series of studies in the growing field of neuroeconomics, which investigates how people calculate risks and rewards.

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The field then suffered a major setback when an Arizona teenager died in a gene therapy experiment in 1999 and two French boys with SCID developed leukemia in 2002.

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Tebow was waived by the Jets on Monday morning when he showed up at the team's facility ready to work out, the end of an embarrassingly unsuccessful one-season experiment in New York that produced more hype and headlines than production on the field.

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