Comments on: Why Good Deeds and Money Don’t Mix

By: Ali Hall

Ali Hall — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:56:27 +0000

I am reading this article second time today, you have to be more careful with content leakers. If I will fount it again I will send you a link

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By: Fern

Fern — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:44:45 +0000

That was a very interesting post to read.

I’m currently in secondary school, and this post made me think about the ‘rewards’ systems that most schools operate. Rewards aren’t handed out equally; only to those who will work better if they get them. I guess that shows that even when being asked to perform the same tasks, for some people they can be social norms and for other people they can be market norms.

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Scott H Young » Friday Links 08-09-19 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:05:30 +0000

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By: powersane

powersane — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:00:28 +0000

Might some jobs straddle the two norms – nurses, teachers, firefighters – with participants receiving rewards of both? If good deeds and money mixed, then teachers and nurses would be loaded. Perhaps they are loaded with combination of money, job satisfaction and a warm fuzzy glow instead. In the market, not all payment is money.

By: J.D. Meier

J.D. Meier — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:15:06 +0000

This reminded me of a related concept — “over-justification.’

The idea is that you shouldn’t reward people for doing what they already like to do. Here’s why — when you justify why you do something (since we already rationalize our own behavior), it’s either intrinsic or we externalize it to reinforcement provided by somebody else.

Here’s the cool part. I couldn’t remember what the name of this was and I wasn’t sure which book might have it. I happened to grab a book off my shelf and land on the exact page. (I have several hundred books and this was no thin book.) What are the odds?