Maybe you ought to read something contrary. I suggest Alfie Kohn’s Punished by Rewards which is pretty scathing on the whole topic of extrinsic motivation, citing plenty of research in evidence. A drawback is that it’s pretty old, the research is from the 1980′s.
Maybe you ought to read something contrary. I suggest Alfie Kohn’s Punished by Rewards which is pretty scathing on the whole topic of extrinsic motivation, citing plenty of research in evidence. A drawback is that it’s pretty old, the research is from the 1980′s.
For others interested, the google scholar keywords ‘extrinsic motivation review’ seem to work well (link).