Greene and Lepper (1974), found that, "by using more incentives to learning in the classroom, proved that rewards can backfire, that a child's intrinsic interest in activity may be undermined by the use of extrinsic rewards and controls...they found that children who performed a task in order to receive an extrinsic reward subsequently became less interested in engaging in the task than did children who were asked to perform the task by had not received a reward, or children who were asked to perform the task and had received the same reward unexpectedly" (as cited in Landen and Williams, 1979, p. 283).
Source: Landen, J., & Willems, A. (1979). Do you really know how to motivate children?. Education, 99(3), 283. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier database.
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