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Are rewards and punishments the best method to control human behavior?

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Are rewards and punishments the best method to control human behavior?

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We offer rewards when we want to encourage people to do something, and we threaten people with punishments when we want to prevent them from doing something. It is certainly true that rewards and punishments have an effect on human behavior, but we should wonder if we can do better than this.