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In a classic experiment, children who already loved drawing were split into groups: some got an expected reward for drawing, some got an unexpected reward, and some got none. Only …
— Mark R. Lepper, David Greene & Richard E. Nisbett, Undermining Children's Intrinsic Interest with Extrinsic Reward: A Test of the 'Overjustification' Hypothesis
In a classic experiment, shoppers picked a 'best' pair from four identical stockings, and most chose the rightmost one — a known position bias. Asked why, almost no one mentioned p…
— Richard E. Nisbett and Timothy D. Wilson, Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes