Paper of the Day

[nyuanshin]

"Identity-related behavioral intentions that had been noticed by other people were translated into action less intensively than those that had been ignored. . . . when other people take notice of an individual's identity-related behavioral intention, this gives the individual a premature sense of possessing the aspired-to identity

Comments

[smandal]

Hmmm ... do they control for levels of instrinsic motivation? If so, how? The naive expectation is that if one is personally drive to achieve some goal, praise by peers does not motivate; however, if he is not personally motivated, then external motivation may help or hurt depending on the person ...

[nyuanshin]

In the first two studies the two groups were pretty close in self-reported motivation, so for those it doesn't really matter unless there's a lot of falsifying going on

[nyuanshin]

*nods* It's a little like getting academic tenure in miniature: once you don't feel like you have something to prove you don't work as hard.