Question

Clarice must choose between reading the next chapter in her economics textbook or streaming the next episode of her favorite show. In her experience, she does well on exams, but even better when she reads the textbook. If she chooses to watch the show, what can be said of incentives?

Answer 1

Answer:Adding negative incentive would more likely result in Clarice choosing to read the textbook.

Explanation:

If she knows there will be negatives incentives when she watches the show she would likely not watch it.

How exactly does incentives impact human behaviors?

Most of the times we are driven by intrinsic motivation however extrinsic motivation also plays a huge role such as incentives .

People are commonly attracted to behaviours that lead to receiving certain rewards and stay away from those which do not give them any rewards or lead to hard consequences.

If someone has been promised a reward rather than a punishment they are likely to excel in that behaviour because they know their effort will be rewarded but if there is a punishment(negative incentive) in place for that behaviour they will most likely stay away from it.