Re: About the Edu-Sprint and Sponsorship in Randa.

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 3:05 AM, Thomas Thym <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday 09 July 2012, 00.02:23 Aleix Pol wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Thomas Thym <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > With extrinsic motivation (you get a carrot if you donte) we are
>> > destroying
>> > intrinsic motivation (to donate to do good or to support a project wich is
>> > important for you).
>> > More options make it more difficult to deside. A couple of weeks (or
>> > perhaps
>> > months) I donated for a project with about 100 possibilities, depending on
>> > 5
>> > or 10 USD stepps (ok, what feeled like 100 was more than 10 or 15 in
>> > reality.)
>> > A had an amount in mind when I entered the site and was so confused by the
>> > options that I left the site to deside. Luckily I came back an donated the
>> > amount I was planing. But am not sure until today if I should write an
>> > e-mail,
>> > that I don't need the carrot.
>> >
>> > So I would be carefull with offering carrots for donations. But perhaps it
>> > is
>> > only me thinking this way and it is successful by these projekts.
>> >
>> > But in general it is a good idea to have a donation option.
>> >
>> > Thomas
>>
>> I tend to agree. I don't really understand how it works, but I'm sure that
>> as soon as you give something in exchange it becomes more about the
>> exchanged thing instead of the sponsorship itself.
>>
>> I think that if we want to give something back it should be something that
>> clearly shows it's not an exchange. Like a post card, or so.
>>
>> Aleix
>
> Just some background information to the two psychological effects:
>
> 1. Crowding out motivation (intrinsic motivation is destroyed by extrinsic
> motivation).
>
> "These negative effects of performance-contingent rewards can best be
> illustrated by an field experiment of Gneezy and Rustichini (2000). It
> analyzes the behavior of school children collecting money voluntarily, i.e.
> without monetary compensation (e.g. for cancer research or disabled children).
> The children reduced their efforts by about 36 percent when they were promised
> a bonus of one percent of the money collected. Their effort to collect for a
> good cause could be raised when the bonus was increased from one to 10 percent
> of the money collected. But they did not reach the initial collection level
> [without bonus] again. This field experiment shows clearly that there are two
> countervailing forces affecting behavior: a crowding-out effect of rewards and
> an effect of motivating the children extrinsically after the intrinsic
> motivation has been decreased."
>
> http://wiki.informatik.unibw-
> muenchen.de/confluence/display/interactcomm/Crowding-
> Out+of+Intrinsic+Motivation
>
> 2. The paradox of choise (more choise leads to better desicions but makes you
> unhappy).
> More possibilities makes it harder to deside and afterwards you are unhappy
> because you are unsure that you really mode the perfect desicion.
>
> There is a brillant TED talk by Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice
> http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice.html
>
> esp. from Minute 07:45
>
> Thomas
>
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