Health Promotion through Monetary Incentives: Evaluating the Impact of Different Reinforcement Schedules on Engagement Levels with a mHealth App by Raoul Nuijten, Pieter Van Gorp, Alireza Khanshan, Pascale Le Blanc, Astrid Kemperman, Pauline van den Berg, Monique Simons

“…Especially, individuals that were triggered by the rewards had a greater ability to defer gratification. Conclusion: When employing financial rewards in mHealth apps, variable reinforcement schedules with immediate payouts are preferred from the perspective of cost and impact.…”
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Young people about career – career perception in adolescence and early adulthood by Magdalena Piorunek

“…For them, career means the following: • the need for achievements and successes, which are defined by others; the pattern of a career related to promotion, prestige and material gratification is most often evoked; • the need to make it public, to appear in the media world, in virtual space; • popularity and fame as an important component of a desired career; • the inability to defer gratification in the professional sphere; • perceiving dissonances in career development: on the one hand, valuing activity, creativity as catalysts for success, on the other hand, conformism, using patronage, connections; • attributing the responsibility for failures and difficulties in career development to the outside.…”
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