Re: Sending the Right Signals
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Author: Immortalist
Date: Sep 19, 2008 16:00
... J. Merrill Carlsmith. These investigators asked college students to perform a very boring and repetitive series of tasks—packing spools in a tray, dumping them out, and then refilling the tray over and over, or turning rows and rows ... results were clear-cut: Those students who had been paid $20 for lying — that is, for saying the spool packing and screw turning had been enjoyable — rated the activity as dull. This is not surprising — it was...
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