When companies give bonus based on meeting a target, employees try to lower the target requirements rather than focus on growing the company.
When parents give candy to their children based on how much they write, children figure out how to write fast without grasping the essence of the writing.
People look for ways that work for their best interest whenever they are incentivized.
Enforcing one right way to solve a problem produces obedient workers. Encouraging more than one correct...
We tend to overestimate our competence. After all the hard work poured into a project, we...
Human bemoans inactions even if taking an action turns out to be erroneous. Yet it is...
We dope out ostensible reasons when confronted with possible goals. “The time is not right.” “I’m...