The new study establishes that the best combination for incentives and punishment that promotes cooperation are in the form of "First carrot, then stick". The mathematical proof shows how the ...

He built a step counter app and, in a field experiment, got 97 volunteers to deposit (the stick) or earn 10 euros (the carrot). They had to take 20% more steps than their usual daily average.

The human donkey requires either a carrot in front or a stick behind to goad it into activity. It is fashionable at the moment to argue that the carrot is the more important of the two: ...

You are too nice. People do not feel the consequences of their actions. You need the carrot and the stick.” He asked us to implement a program that weeds out nonperformers across the ...

We’ve all heard the idiom about the carrot being better than the stick as a tool for motivation but did you ever wonder where it came from? Turns out it originated with an old story about a mule ...