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Positive Effects of Rewards and Performance Standards on Intrinsic Motivation
2003
The Psychological Record
The present study examined how rewards affect people's intrinsic motivation when the rewards are tied to meeting increasingly demanding performance standards. The experiment was a 2 x 2 factorial design with 2 levels of performance standard (constant, progressive) and 2 levels of reward (reward, no reward). Using a puzzle-solving task, 60 undergraduate university students were randomly assigned to the experimental conditions. In the constant conditions, participants were required to solve 3
doi:10.1007/bf03395453
fatcat:e4he4po64baulgvsqa33ut5fli