Effect of reward on subjective autonomy and interest when initial interest is low

Psychological Record

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 319-332

  Overskeid, Geir ^a   Svartdal, Frode ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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