scratching, they write that the existing literature didn’t account for such a result.
Indeed, the possibility of an increase in the behavior being punished was not even considered.”
Up pops another bug in Motivation 2.0. One reason most parents showed upon time is that they had a relationship with the teachers—who, after all, were caring for their precious sons and daughters—and wanted to treat them fairly.
Parents had an intrinsic desire to be scrupulous about punctuality. But the threat of a fine—like the promise of the kronor in the blood experiment—edged aside that third drive. The fine shifted the parents decision from a partly moral obligation (be fair to my kids teachers) to a pure transaction (I can buy extra time. There wasn’t room for both. The punishment didn’t promote good behavior it crowded it out.
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