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It says in his little bio he likes dinosaurs, so we're pretty similar. Except I LOVE dinosaurs. I am dino fan numero uno. My buddy Terry tries to claim he is, but he's not. He's not even number two, although I tell him he is just so he doesn't get all sad on me. Terry: my wife is baking hundreds of cookies i am gather up my clothes and shit we are leaving in like.. an hour or so Me: WAIT -- WHERE THE F*** ARE YOU GOING? Hit the jump for nine more and a bonus Samurai riding a t-rex because I'm into it. Thanks to Wayne and Matthew B, who agree it's all fun and games till somebody uses a magic wish to turn Pokemon real and they run rampant and kill us all. Sixth grader gets third eye in school picture. 6 Times The Onion Had People Completely Fooled.
Update (9/17/2012): Add ESPN's Stephen A. Smith to the list. Photo credit: Flickr user Afraid of Ducks The site Literally Unbelievable showcases normal people on Facebook who have been duped by satirical articles from The Onion. But every now and then those misunderstandings have real world consequences. 1. Last year The Onion ran this article, in which the very real Californian Parenting Institute was "quoted" about a "study" they did that found that no matter your parenting style, it produces unhappy adults. “Despite great variance in parenting styles across populations, the end product is always the same: a profoundly flawed and joyless human being.
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How Rewards Can Backfire and Reduce Motivation. Surely one of the best ways to generate motivation in ourselves and others is by dangling rewards?
Yet psychologists have long known that rewards are overrated. The carrot, of carrot-and-stick fame, is not as effective as we’ve been led to believe. Rewards work under some circumstances but sometimes they backfire. Spectacularly. Here is a story about preschool children with much to teach all ages about the strange effects that rewards have on our motivation. It’s child’s play Psychologists Mark R.
Since parents so often use rewards as motivators for children they recruited fifty-one preschoolers aged between 3 and 4. The children were then randomly assigned to one of the following conditions: Expected reward. Each child was invited into a separate room to draw for 6 minutes then afterwards either given their reward or not depending on the condition. Rewards reduce intrinsic motivation Reviewing 128 studies on the effects of rewards Deci et al. (1999, p. 658) concluded that: Overjustification.
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