Here’s where you can learn more about the people and ideas in this episode:

SOURCES

• Stephen Karpman, psychiatrist and creator of the drama triangle.
• Dustin Peterson, leadership coach.
• Sharie Stines, psychologist and recovery coach.
• Daniel Kahneman, professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University.
• James Harrison, former American football linebacker.
• Tom Gilovich, professor of psychology at Cornell University.
• Katy Milkman, professor of behavioral science at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Jana Gallus, professor of strategy and behavioral decision making at the University of California, Los Angeles.
• Bruno Frey, professor of economics at the University of Basel.

RESOURCES

• “After Defeat, England’s Black Soccer Players Face a Racist Outburst,” by Mark Landler (The New York Times, 2021).
• “What’s America’s Favorite Sandwich?” by Andrew Greiner (YouGov, 2019).
• “We’ve Been Handing Out Participation Trophies for 100 Years,” by Stefan Fatsis (Slate, 2019).
• “The Trouble With Tuna: ‘A Lot of Millennials Don’t Even Own Can Openers,’” by Jesse Newman and Annie Gasparro (The Wall Street Journal, 2018).
• Honours Versus Money: The Economics of Awards, by Bruno S. Frey and Jana Gallus (2017).
• “Fostering Public Good Contributions with Symbolic Awards: A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment at Wikipedia,” by Jana Gallus (Management Science, 2017).
• “Creating Exercise Habits Using Incentives: The Tradeoff between Flexibility and Routinization,” by John Beshears and Katherine L. Milkman (AEA RCT Registry, 2017).
• “Breaking out of the Drama Triangle,” by Sharie Stines (PsychCentral, 2016).
• “James Harrison Thinks Kids’ Participation Trophies Are Worthless, Sets Off Debate,” by Cindy Boren (The Washington Post, 2015).
• “Intrinsic Motivation and Extrinsic Incentives Jointly Predict Performance: A 40-Year Meta-Analysis,” by Christopher P. Cerasoli, Jessica M. Nicklin, and Michael T. Ford (Psychological Bulletin, 2014).
• “When Less Is More: Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction Among Olympic Medalists,” by Victoria Husted Medvec, Scott F. Madey, and Thomas Gilovich (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1995).
• “Intrinsic Motivation in Young Children,” by Adele Eskeles Gottfried (Young Children, 1983).
• “Fairytales and Script Drama Analysis,” Stephen Karpman (Transactional Analysis Bulletin, 1968).
• Genesis Chapter IV, (King James Version, 1611).

EXTRAS