Motivation Crowding Theory.¶
Frey, B. S., & Jegen, R. (2001). Motivation Crowding Theory. Journal of Economic Surveys, 15(5), 589-611.
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- Crowding Out
- The frame-shift cases are the striking ones, because there elasticity can exceed one: a small monetary incentive can extinguish a large prior intrinsic activity, since the change to the frame is structural rather than marginal.
This sourceSurvey establishing that monetary interventions can crowd out intrinsic motivation, with effects exceeding marginal adjustment when the construal frame flips.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
The survey's own abstract supports that monetary incentives can undermine intrinsic motivation and can in specific cases dominate the relative price effect; it states no elasticity, no extinction of prior activity, no frame shift.
“Crowding effects thus are an empirically relevant phenomenon, which can, in specific cases, even dominate the traditional relative price effect.”
- The frame-shift cases are the striking ones, because there elasticity can exceed one: a small monetary incentive can extinguish a large prior intrinsic activity, since the change to the frame is structural rather than marginal.
- Eutrophication
- Information ecosystems: attention is the limiting resource; excess content production drives overload, displaces deliberation, and depletes calm evaluation capacity faster than it regenerates — a cognitive analogue of the hypoxic regime. Incentive design and organisations: excess high-powered incentives drive a bloom of goaled activity that crowds out judgement-intensive work, consumes managerial attention on gaming and enforcement, and displaces intrinsic motivation that is slow to return — the Goodhart cascade.
This sourceSurveys empirical evidence that external monetary incentives can crowd out intrinsic motivation — the mechanism by which excess high-powered incentives deplete the slow-to-regenerate stock of intrinsic motivation.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
The abstract supports monetary incentives crowding out intrinsic motivation, but not the 'bloom', attention-gaming or slow-return clauses of the claim.
“The Motivation Crowding Effect suggests that external intervention via monetary incentives or punishments may undermine, and under different identifiable conditions strengthen, intrinsic motivation.”
- Information ecosystems: attention is the limiting resource; excess content production drives overload, displaces deliberation, and depletes calm evaluation capacity faster than it regenerates — a cognitive analogue of the hypoxic regime. Incentive design and organisations: excess high-powered incentives drive a bloom of goaled activity that crowds out judgement-intensive work, consumes managerial attention on gaming and enforcement, and displaces intrinsic motivation that is slow to return — the Goodhart cascade.
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