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Research shows that more extrinsic rewards do not add up to greater inner drive. In fact, they have the opposite effect—a decline in intrinsic motivation. Nor do extrinsic rewards motivate children, or any of us, in the long term. The most they provide is a short-term lift.

Simon Sinek • Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

consists of the traits Narcissism, Machiavellianism, Psychopathy, and Sadism (Buckels et al., 2013) and captures antisocial personality traits that are not well represented in the Big Five

Oxford University Press • The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology (OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES)

Don’t mistake silence for apathy. When people are quiet, they’re often busy thinking and learning. Extraverts like to process ideas by talking them through. Introverts prefer to reflect before they speak. I'm not disengaged. I'm listening to your views and formulating mine.

Adam Grant

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it is clear that negative gossip can have social benefits: it reduces the risk of members of our social group exploiting us.

Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships

The bottom line is that in lab experiments that give people invisibility combined with plausible deniability, most people cheat.

Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

‘social loafing’ — the widespread tendency of individuals to decrease their own effort when they start working collaboratively.

Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It

Whether they are trying to be especially good, or trying to be especially bad, the goal is the same: to attract the attention of other people, get out of the “normal” condition and become a “special being.”

Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

Self-control and deliberate thought apparently draw on the same limited budget of effort.

Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow

“psychological safety.”9 Edmondson studies teams and has shown that when a group believes they can speak up, ask for help, admit mistakes, propose ideas, take blame, confess uncertainty, and disclose inability, they learn more and perform better.