- Behaviorism (Psychology), Motivation (Psychology), Reward (Psychology), Motivatie
Criticizes the system of motivating through reward, offering arguments for motivating people by working with them instead of doing things to them.
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Spare, classical in form, earnest and contemporary.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Alfie Kohn
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 440
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Houghton Mifflin Co., Mariner Books
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780395650288
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