A researcher concluded that rewards reduce motivation after testing 18 children in one nursery, with no group that received no reward, and measuring free-time drawing on a single day.
Achievement motivation was scored from participants' written stories about ambiguous pictures, rated by a single researcher. Higher scorers later chose harder tasks.
Table 2 groups students by intrinsic-motivation tertile and shows mean exam score: low tertile 58%, medium 67%, high 74%.
A survey based on a Western 'hierarchy of needs' asked people in several countries to rank what motivates them. Rankings in some countries did not match the order the model predicts.
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