Companies spend significant amounts of money on tangible rewards programs, even during the economic turmoil COVID-19 pandemic (Incentive Research Foundation 2020). The prevalence, growth, and significance these expenditures highlight importance understanding purpose use programs by organizations. public accounting (PA) firms’ compensation plans has focused balance between professional commercia...

Gender differences in reward sensitivity and information processing were examined in two studies using a dynamic decision-making task. In Experiment 1, the optimal strategy involved forgoing an option that provided larger immediate rewards in favor of one yielding larger delayed rewards. In Experiment 2, the optimal strategy was to select the option that provided larger immediate rewards becaus...

In the past decades, most object recognition systems were based on passive approaches. But in the last few years a lot of research was done in the field of active object recognition, that is selectively moving a sensor/camera around a considered object in order to acquire as much information about it as possible. In this paper we present an active object recognition approach that solves the pro...

Using original survey data, this paper examines whether monetary rewards and honor rewards encourage or discourage blood donation. On the use of monetary rewards, we find that i) the overall sample’s response to monetary rewards is positive, and ii) people who volunteer more frequently, people who donated blood regularlt and people who donate blood to help others respond less positively to mone...

Impulsivity is a stable personality trait associated with myopic choice behavior that favors immediate rewards over larger, delayed rewards and is often characterized as maladaptive inside and outside of the laboratory. An alternative view suggests that the consequences of trait impulsivity depend on the nature of the task environment. On this view, the optimal level of impulsivity varies acros...

It is not very often that an institution gets the opportunity to design an engineering curriculum from scratch; an opportunity that also comes with many challenges, as well as rewards. Apart from how to present which material in the most innovative, efficient and pedagogical way, there is also the ubiquitously delicate issue of how to balance teaching and research – a significant challenge cons...

Two studies examined whether the detrimental effects of attention to rewards on delay of gratification in waiting situations holds-or reverses-in working situations. In Study 1, preschoolers waited or worked for desired delayed rewards. Delay times increased when children worked in the presence of rewards but, as predicted, this increase was due to the distraction provided by the work itself. n...

1 Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda, 3 Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 4 University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, 5 Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Boston, Mas...