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...start taking easier courses to ensure they'll do well enough to pocket the money. "Everyone knows what the gut classes are when you're in college," notes Kirabo Jackson, an assistant professor of labor economics at Cornell who has studied cash incentives for high school students. "By rewarding people for a GPA, you're actually giving them an impetus to take an easier route through college." Other critics note that students' internal drive to learn may be sapped as they focus on getting an external reward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Students Be Paid for Good Grades? | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...years, explains: "The question is whether something was promised or something was expected. The courts realize there is a right to give, a constitutional right to support your candidate with money. But now we're into the gray area. When is there an expectation of a reward [for having provided that monetary support]? When does the politician or the donor cross the line? It's not clearly spelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Will Blagojevich Defend Himself in Court? | 1/9/2009 | See Source »

...Party. Starbucks is offering registered Starbucks reward card customers $2 Tazo Tea lattes through Jan. 18. Just use your Starbucks card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel News: It's Rodeo Season! (Plus, Restaurant Week in New York) | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

...days later - exactly what you want from a drug when you are prepping for exams. The drugs even seem to improve certain aspects of judgment. One study of 36 normal women and men found that they were more likely to choose to delay gratification and receive a larger monetary reward when given amphetamines than settle for a smaller amount of money immediately. Improvements in memory and cognitive control have been reported in multiple studies, mainly using Ritalin and amphetamines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Popping Smart Pills: The Case for Cognitive Enhancement | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

...Bruce Cohen, director of the Frazier Research Institute at McLean Hospital in Boston and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. "It's a piece of the puzzle to understanding why we like novelty, and why we get addicted to substances ... Dopamine is an important piece of reward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Take Risks — It's the Dopamine | 12/30/2008 | See Source »

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