Motivation Crowding Theory.¶
Frey, B. S., & Jegen, R. (2001). Motivation Crowding Theory. Journal of Economic Surveys, 15(5), 589-611.
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Primes¶
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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