What Is Extrinsic Motivation? Definition and Examples
Extrinsic motivation is a behavior driven by a desire to receive external rewards. These rewards can include money, fame, praise, and recognized educational achievement.
How Context Switching Sabotages Your Productivity
Context switching makes us less effective as workers, increases the number of mistakes we make, and costs the global economy upwards of $450 billion annually.
Lego Braille Bricks: Improving Blind Literacy Through Play
When I write about meaningful work, a topic that I believe to be at the center of all that it means to be human, it’s projects such as Lego Braille Bricks that...
How Diffusion of Responsibility Alters Group Behavior
Diffusion of responsibility is a sociopsychological event in which the presence of others makes it less likely for those present to take responsibility for the situation at hand.
The Bystander Effect: The Psychology Behind a Social Phenomenon
The bystander effect occurs when the presence of more witnesses to a crime, accident, or other event decreases the chances of any of them coming forward to help.