Groove Track | No, Short-Term Rewards Don’t Drain Long-Term Motivation

<p class="x_MsoNormal">For many years, the general consensus by many researchers and practitioners was that providing people with short-term extrinsic rewards sapped their long-term motivation. This led to some organizations reducing or not using short-term rewards at all. However, this perspective has always had some detractors and now even more research shows that this belief is misleading.</p> <p class="x_MsoNormal">In this episode, Kurt and Tim explore the research paper by Indranil Goswami and Oleg Urmisky with the lovely title of “<a href='https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312100138_The_dynamic_effect_of_incentives_on_postreward_task_engagement'>The Dynamic Effect of Incentives on Post-Reward Task Engagement</a>” that shows that while short-term incentives drive an immediate reduction in task engagement, this only lasts for a short time and that engagement rebounds to the baseline relatively quickly.  </p> <p class="x_MsoNormal">We examine some of the backstory to this belief, what the study showed, and review the implications of this.    </p> <p class="x_MsoNormal"> </p> Links <p class="x_MsoNormal">The Dynamic Effect of Incentives on Post-Reward Task Engagement: <a href='https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312100138_The_dynamic_effect_of_incentives_on_postreward_task_engagement'>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312100138_The_dynamic_effect_of_incentives_on_postreward_task_engagement</a> </p> <p class="x_MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="x_MsoNormal">© 2022 Behavioral Grooves</p>