Educational Psychology
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Overjustification:

Dissonance theory
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~bfmalle/sp/L7.html

Paradigm of overjustification:

Lepper, Greene, & Nisbett (1973)--in the reader. In this situation, children who already like to draw
receive an additional reason why they do it ("overjustification"), namely, an award. Under this new
self-interpretation, they don't draw anymore because they like it but because they want they award; as a
result, their drawing is less fun (and less good).



Forbidden Toy Study
The "Overjustification" Paradigm
http://sparkleinc.com/mlcenter/study1.htm



Felt Tip Marker Study
Effects of Extrinsic Rewards on Motivation and Learning
http://www.sparkleinc.com/mlcenter/study2.htm

The "Overjustification " Hypothesis:
A person’s intrinsic interest in an activity may be decreased by inducing them to engage in the activity as an explicit means to some extrinsic goal.
 


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