Comment Re:Great Tips (Score 1) 310

by Shiva Lingham on Monday November 06, 2000 @10:04AM (#646188) Attached to: Greenspun on Managing Software Engineers

You may want to check out Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner. This is the gentleman who defined and made a study of positive and negative reinforcement, and the gist of this book is that negative reinforcement NEVER works with human beings because it only encourages dishonesty, amongst other things. (Think about the Spartans)

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