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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] About the Edu-Sprint and Sponsorship in Randa.
From:       Thomas Thym <ungethym () mevin ! net>
Date:       2012-07-09 6:05:33
Message-ID: 3619299.KIeHpetbKG () saphira ! mevin ! net
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On Monday 09 July 2012, 00.02:23 Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Thomas Thym <ungethym@mevin.net> wrote:
> > With extrinsic motivation (you get a carrot if you donte) we are
> > destroying
> > intrinsic motivation (to donate to do good or to support a project wich \
> > is important for you).
> > More options make it more difficult to deside. A couple of weeks (or
> > perhaps
> > months) I donated for a project with about 100 possibilities, depending \
> > on 5
> > or 10 USD stepps (ok, what feeled like 100 was more than 10 or 15 in
> > reality.)
> > A had an amount in mind when I entered the site and was so confused by \
> > the options that I left the site to deside. Luckily I came back an \
> > donated the amount I was planing. But am not sure until today if I \
> > should write an e-mail,
> > that I don't need the carrot.
> > 
> > So I would be carefull with offering carrots for donations. But perhaps \
> > it is
> > only me thinking this way and it is successful by these projekts.
> > 
> > But in general it is a good idea to have a donation option.
> > 
> > Thomas
> 
> I tend to agree. I don't really understand how it works, but I'm sure \
> that as soon as you give something in exchange it becomes more about the
> exchanged thing instead of the sponsorship itself.
> 
> I think that if we want to give something back it should be something \
> that clearly shows it's not an exchange. Like a post card, or so.
> 
> Aleix

Just some background information to the two psychological effects:

1. Crowding out motivation (intrinsic motivation is destroyed by extrinsic 
motivation).

"These negative effects of performance-contingent rewards can best be 
illustrated by an field experiment of Gneezy and Rustichini (2000). It 
analyzes the behavior of school children collecting money voluntarily, i.e. \
 without monetary compensation (e.g. for cancer research or disabled \
children).  The children reduced their efforts by about 36 percent when \
they were promised  a bonus of one percent of the money collected. Their \
effort to collect for a  good cause could be raised when the bonus was \
increased from one to 10 percent  of the money collected. But they did not \
reach the initial collection level  [without bonus] again. This field \
experiment shows clearly that there are two  countervailing forces \
affecting behavior: a crowding-out effect of rewards and  an effect of \
motivating the children extrinsically after the intrinsic  motivation has \
been decreased."

http://wiki.informatik.unibw-
muenchen.de/confluence/display/interactcomm/Crowding-
Out+of+Intrinsic+Motivation

2. The paradox of choise (more choise leads to better desicions but makes \
you  unhappy).
More possibilities makes it harder to deside and afterwards you are unhappy \
 because you are unsure that you really mode the perfect desicion.

There is a brillant TED talk by Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice.html


esp. from Minute 07:45

Thomas

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