hi i am new on this forum, and i have been catching up and reading archives.
we do not use rewards / punishments, and Punished by Rewards made perfect sense to me. some posters here posted about research countering his views.
several years ago i took a 4th year seminar in psychology called 'motivation' and we discussed research on external and internal motivation in the context of rewards and punishments. in a nutshell -- hundreds of primary research articles supporting what Alfie Kohn is writing about. after 2 kids my memory is not so sharp
BUT i am pretty sure i did not encounter any research to the contrary.
well, research to the contrary will unlikely change my parenting philosophy, but i am very curious what the body of research disproves in the field of development and motivation and what arguments can be made against what Kohn is writing about.
mom to ada (3) and max (5m)
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we do not use rewards / punishments, and Punished by Rewards made perfect sense to me. some posters here posted about research countering his views.
several years ago i took a 4th year seminar in psychology called 'motivation' and we discussed research on external and internal motivation in the context of rewards and punishments. in a nutshell -- hundreds of primary research articles supporting what Alfie Kohn is writing about. after 2 kids my memory is not so sharp

well, research to the contrary will unlikely change my parenting philosophy, but i am very curious what the body of research disproves in the field of development and motivation and what arguments can be made against what Kohn is writing about.
mom to ada (3) and max (5m)

