Alfie Kohn Rewards Quotations

Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.

Social psychology has found the more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward.

Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.