• DOI:10.1037/0022-3514.81.4.728
• Corpus ID: 24533874

Incremental effects of reward on creativity.

@article{Eisenberger2001IncrementalEO,
  title={Incremental effects of reward on creativity.},
  author={Robert Eisenberger and Linda Rhoades},
  journal={Journal of personality and social psychology},
  year={2001},
  volume={81 4},
  pages={
          728-41
        }
}

• R. Eisenberger, L. Rhoades
• Published 1 October 2001
• Psychology
• Journal of personality and social psychology

The authors examined 2 ways reward might increase creativity. First, reward contingent on creativity might increase extrinsic motivation. Studies 1 and 2 found that repeatedly giving preadolescent students reward for creative performance in 1 task increased their creativity in subsequent tasks. Study 3 reported that reward promised for creativity increased college students' creative task performance. Second, expected reward for high performance might increase creativity by enhancing perceived self-determination and, therefore, intrinsic task interest. Study 4 found that employees' intrinsic job interest mediated a positive relationship between expected reward for high performance and creative suggestions offered at work. Study 5 found that employees' perceived self-determination mediated a positive relationship between expected reward for high performance and the creativity of anonymous suggestions for helping the organization.