This is the overjustification hypothesis for which Lepper and Greene were searching and although it seems like backwards thinking, it's typical of the way the mind sometimes works.

这就是过度合理化假设，莱佩尔和格林一直研究的现象。尽管它看起来像是逆向思维，确实是思想工作的特定的方式。

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Regardless of why overjustification effects occur, it is incontrovertible that many incentives do not incentivize.

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