Do Intrinsic Rewards Matter on Motivation?

Positive Effects of Rewards and Performance Standards on Intrinsic Motivation

The present study examined how rewards affect people's intrinsic motivation when the rewards are tied to meeting increasingly demanding performance standards. The experiment was a 2 x 2 factorial design with 2 levels of performance standard (constant, progressive) and 2 levels of reward (reward, no reward). Using a puzzle-solving task, 60 undergraduate university students were randomly assigned...

The Debate about Rewards and Intrinsic Motivation: Protests and Accusations Do Not Alter the Results

Intrinsic Motivation, Extrinsic Rewards, and Divergent Views of Reality

The long-standing debate over whether extrinsic rewards undermine intrinsic motivation and the more recent debate regarding the costs and benefits of performance goals are central issues addressed in Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation: The Search for Optimal Motivation and Performance, edited by Carol Sansone and Judith Harackiewicz. The book contains chapters from a number of the most prominen...

How Do We Approach Intrinsic Motivation Computationally

What is the energy function guiding behavior and learningμ Representationbased approaches like maximum entropy, generative models, sparse coding, or slowness principles can account for unsupervised learning of biologically observed structure in sensory systems from raw sensory data. However, they do not relate to behavior. Behavior-based approaches like reinforcement learning explain animal beh...

The impact of intrinsic motivation on satisfaction with extrinsic rewards in a nursing environment

Nurses in a hospital located in Southern US were surveyed to determine their perceptions of the reward structures existent in their hospital. Reward structures were divided into two categories: extrinsic and intrinsic. The cluster analysis procedure partitioned the sample into two clusters based on their level of satisfaction with the hospital’s reward structure. The analysis of variance proced...