Alfie Kohn
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first heard Oct 2018
last heard Oct 2018
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harshest and cruelest forms of
o of socializing of kids.
where for example using physical violence on them, spanking and slapping and so on is
is gradually declining, at least within certain subcultures.
But only to be replaced by other forms of punishment and the flip side rewards.
jump through the hoops and here's
the sticker or the gold star or the candy bar or the dollar or the grade or the pat on the head that I'll give you.
So even though the techniques have shifted a bit, the the fundamental question, what are we trying to get?
has not.
Yeah.
So sure.
Let's let's start with that last phrase, but it works.
First of all, our immediate response should be works to get what.
And the answer is according to decades.
of research that I began exploring um twenty five years ago with my book Punished by Rewards.
drawing on research that it appeared much earlier than that in some cases is
Rewards like punishments can get you one thing and only one thing ever, and that is temporary compliance at an enormous cost.
And that even that temporary compliance is not guaranteed, and the same is true of punishment.
which we prefer to call consequences because we don't like to think of ourselves as punitive, but of course it's still a punishment.
Um punishments in rewards if we say to kids, Do this or here's what I'm gonna do to you.
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