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"I’ll Have One of Each": How Separating Rewards into (Meaningless) Categories Increases Motivation
(American Psychological Association, 2012-12-07)We propose that separating rewards into categories can increase motivation, even when those categories are meaningless. Across six experiments, people were more motivated to obtain one reward from one category and another ...