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"Social psychology has found that:
The more you reward people for doing something...
the more they lose interest in whatever they had to do, to get the reward."
(Which makes a bit of a mockery, I feel, of both our education and employment systems.)
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Quote from Alfie Kohn's book, 'The Schools Our Children Deserve'
Of related interest:
Why rewards and punishments go a bit wrong with autistics.
I'm so sorry the image says, 'scroll left' - it's because it's from my Instragram feed - link to original is here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-n_O3QiJ3E/?img_index=1
(And even there it's actually wrong, and should read, 'scroll right' 
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@KatyElphinstone Well, this is surprisingly counterintuitive.
What does it suggest in its place?
Aha well, in my book 'How to raise happy Neurofabulous children' I go into that in quite a lot of detail.
Also my article on praising children, here: https://www.neurofabulous.org.uk/praising-children.html
Basically, I know it's terrifying, but we have to rely on our relationship and connection, instead 
@KatyElphinstone this is true and like redefining #education we need to learn to recognise reward, within ourselves not just from an external source, for giving and sharing in terms of psychology and biology these have also been proven.
We need to be more holistic in everything we do (practice) feel. As Teilhard De Charden said "we are #spiritual beings having a physical experience". This is evolution. We cannot be reduced to an algorithm. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103117303451 https://www.livescience.com/52936-need-to-give-boosted-by-brain-science-and-evolution.html
Yes, yes, yes!
For what it's worth, this is the book I'm reading at the moment 
(Talking about reductionism and the mechanistic universe)
Thank you for the study. It looks brilliant! I'll read that more fully when I'm not supposed to be cooking lol
@KatyElphinstone is this for everyone or just neurodivergent people?