And collaborative cultures were positively related to team cohesion, branch potency (the extent to which employees believed the branch was productive and successful), and lower levels of burnout.

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When researchers played them 20-second clips that contained a mix of sounds recorded at different sites, including in the Mela grounds and also the streets of Allahabad city, the pilgrims could pick up the sounds of the festival and "interpreted and experienced these noises much more positively when they believed them to be Mela-related".

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