Name: Punished by Rewards
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Author: Alfie Kohn

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The basic strategy for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summarized in one sentence: Do this, and you'll get that.  We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales commissions) in front of people the same way we train the family pet.  Drawing on a wealth of psychological research, Alfie Kohn presents an argument unsettling to hear but impossible to dismiss. 

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