Informational versus Controlling Verbal Rewards
- 1 June 1980
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 6 (2) , 228-233
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616728062007
Abstract
The experiment was designed to test Deci's (1975) informational/controlling analysis with verbal rewards and to assess the joint effects of type of verbal reward and level of surveillance. Compared to a no-reward control, the informational verbal reward enhanced interest in task engagement, but the controlling verbal reward did not. Regardless of type of reward, task interest decreased in linear fashion as surveillance was increased from low to medium to high.Keywords
This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
- Competence and the overjustification effect: A developmental study.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1979
- Increasing and decreasing intrinsic interest with contingent rewards: A test of cognitive evaluation theoryJournal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1978
- Initiating Play Activity of Children: The Moderating Influence of Verbal Cues on Intrinsic MotivationChild Development, 1977
- The Effect of Performance-Relevant and Performance-Irrelevant Rewards on Children's Intrinsic MotivationChild Development, 1977
- The undermining and enhancing of intrinsic motivation in preschool children.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1976
- Turning play into work: Effects of adult surveillance and extrinsic rewards on children's intrinsic motivation.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1975
- Intrinsic MotivationPublished by Springer Nature ,1975
- Intrinsic motivation, extrinsic reinforcement, and inequity.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1972
- Effects of externally mediated rewards on intrinsic motivation.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1971