Alfie Kohn: Praise sparks fake generosity

This reference is used to annotate "I would never send my kids to school" (2017) by Piotr Wozniak

In a troubling study conducted by Joan Grusec at the University of Toronto, young children who were frequently praised for displays of generosity tended to be slightly less generous on an everyday basis than other children were. Every time they had heard “Good sharing!” or “I’m so proud of you for helping,” they became a little less interested in sharing or helping. Those actions came to be seen not as something valuable in their own right but as something they had to do to get that reaction again from an adult. Generosity became a means to an end

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Quoted excerpts come from the following reference:

Title: Five Reasons to Stop Saying “Good Job!”

Author: Alfie Kohn

Link: http://www.alfiekohn.org/article/five-reasons-stop-saying-good-job/