Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/86544 
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Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 06-092/1
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
Several economists have directed our attention to a finding in the social psychological literature that extrinsic motivation may undermine intrinsic motivation. The self-perception (SP) theory developed by Bem (1972) explains this finding. The crux of this theory is that people remember their past decisions and the extrinsic rewards they received, but they do not recall their intrinsic motives. In this paper I show that the SP theory can be modeled as a variant of a conventional dynamic learning (DL) model. A comparison between the assumptions underlying the SP model and the DL model shows that the SP model could be relevant in a wide variety of educational contexts. However, the SP model seems ls relevant than the DL model in other contexts.
Subjects: 
Self-Perception Theory
Dynamic Learning
Incentives
Intrinsic Motivation
JEL: 
D82
D83
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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