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Why is money a demotivator?​

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Because

people given a financial incentive were now less interested in solving puzzles on their own time.”
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To his surprise, Deci found that “people given a financial incentive were now less interested in solving puzzles on their own time.” External rewards “seemed to kill their internal drive.” Later psychologists who have studied Deci's experiment theorize that the cash payments implied that the puzzle solving had no ...

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