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Workers in a wide variety of jobs are paid based on performance, which is commonly seen as enhancing effort and productivity relative to non-contingent pay schemes.
Large Stakes and Big Mistakes
Functional fixedness is a cognitive bias that limits a person to using an object only in the way it is traditionally used.
Functional fixedness
Lera Boroditsky is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and Editor in Chief of Frontiers in Cultural Psychology. Professor Boroditsky does research in cognitive science with a specific focus on cognitive linguistics.
Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought