Large Stakes and Big Mistakes

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2009
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Abstract
Workers in a wide variety of jobs are paid based on performance, which is commonly seen as enhancing effort and productivity relative to non-contingent pay schemes. However, psychological research suggests that excessive rewards can, in some cases, result in a decline in performance. To test whether very high monetary rewards can decrease performance, we conducted a set of experiments in the U.S. and in India in which subjects worked on different tasks and received performance-contingent payments that varied in amount from small to very large relative to their typical levels of pay. With some important exceptions, very high reward levels had a detrimental effect on performance.
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Authors Dan Ariely, Uri Gneezy, George Loewenstein, Nina Mažar
Journal The Review of Economic Studies
Year 2009
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10.1111/j.1467-937x.2009.00534.x
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