People’s naiveté about how extrinsic rewards influence intrinsic motivation
| Autor: | Shinji Kitagami, Jasmine Raw, Kou Murayama, Ayumi Tanaka |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Environmental Engineering
Affective forecasting Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis 05 social sciences 050301 education Metacognition 050105 experimental psychology Competition (economics) Incentive Empirical research Developmental and Educational Psychology Overjustification effect Intrinsic motivation 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology 0503 education Social psychology Applied Psychology Self-determination theory |
| Zdroj: | Motivation Science. 2:138-142 |
| ISSN: | 2333-8121 2333-8113 |
| Popis: | Despite the voluminous empirical research on the harmful effects of extrinsic incentives (e.g., money, competition prizes, etc.) on people’s intrinsic motivation (“undermining effect”), our society is still reliant upon the use of extrinsic incentives to motivate people. To better understand the reason underlying this theory-practice gap, the current study examined people’s beliefs about how extrinsic incentives influence recipients’ intrinsic motivation. Participants were presented with a description of a previous experiment which demonstrated the undermining effect, and were asked to make a prediction about the results of the experiment. The findings showed that the majority of participants firmly, but wrongly believed in the beneficial effects of reward on intrinsic motivation and did so with greater confidence. This inaccurate belief about motivation may play a role in the current, frequent use of extrinsic incentives in our society, and the current study suggests the importance of targeting stakeholders’ beliefs in intervention research. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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