I think I just searched for info on extrinsic and intrinsic motivation on Google Scholar. Looking at my notes, one of the papers I found was called “Self-Determination Theory and the Facilitation of Intrinsic Motivation, Social Development, and Well-Being” if that helps.
I think another tidbit that persuaded me was seeing autonomy, mastery, and community as all being elements cited as important for intrinsic motivation. These all seemed like facets of social status: autonomy means you are in control (and therefore statusful), mastery means you can build skills that get you status, and community means you have people to be high status relative to.
I was just skimming though; I wouldn’t read too much in to my conclusion. If you want to do a literature review and write up your findings that’d probably be pretty valuable. There might be other interesting findings to report on, e.g. IIRC performance on menial tasks doesn’t suffer in response to extrinsic rewards.
I think I just searched for info on extrinsic and intrinsic motivation on Google Scholar. Looking at my notes, one of the papers I found was called “Self-Determination Theory and the Facilitation of Intrinsic Motivation, Social Development, and Well-Being” if that helps.
I think another tidbit that persuaded me was seeing autonomy, mastery, and community as all being elements cited as important for intrinsic motivation. These all seemed like facets of social status: autonomy means you are in control (and therefore statusful), mastery means you can build skills that get you status, and community means you have people to be high status relative to.
I was just skimming though; I wouldn’t read too much in to my conclusion. If you want to do a literature review and write up your findings that’d probably be pretty valuable. There might be other interesting findings to report on, e.g. IIRC performance on menial tasks doesn’t suffer in response to extrinsic rewards.