Carrots are better than sticks for building human cooperation

Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 14:21 in Psychology & Sociology

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Rewards go further than punishment in building human cooperation and benefiting the common good, according to research published this week in the journal Science by researchers at Harvard University and the Stockholm School of Economics.

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