Social psychology has found the more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward. (Alfie Kohn)

Social psychology has found the more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward.

Alfie Kohn

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