Can You scare the good into people? It's one of those ideas that
keeps coming up, over and over again. It SEEMS to make sense.
After all, it seems to work on dogs: Yell at a dog and they will
learn to behave, right? "I'd better not do this or I'll get
yelled at." But: a) People are not dogs. b) When you're not
around, doesn't the dog chase the cat / get into the garbage?
How effective was all that yelling then? Of course, praise can
backfire too, especially among women. "Research by Professors
Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci, and others indicate that
positive feedback is demotivating _when it feels controlling_
and destroys people's feeling of autonomy. This even includes
praise. Surprisingly, in a number of experiments, Professor Ryan
found that positive feedback or praise was more likely to
undermine the intrinsic motivation of women than men. The
reasons are not clear, but the studies further indicate that
women are more likely than men to perceive praise as
controlling" Motivation. In the end, if something doesn't feel
rewarding all by itself - if you feel as if you're being
controlled by someone else, then it's just "faking it". Even if
you're a dog. But you're not. Probably.
[caption id="attachment_19243" align="alignnone"
width="1257"][1]Fear Turned prisons into role models. Fear
Turned prisons into role models.[/caption]
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