TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1987//
TI  - Reward and ideational fluency in preschool children
JO  - Early childhood research quarterly
A1  - Groves, Melissa M.
A1  - Sawyers, Janet K.
A1  - Moran, James D.
SP  - 335
EP  - 340
VL  - 2
IS  - 4
N2  - This study examined the effects of rewards on the ideational fluency of 75 preschool children. Assigned to a reward or nonreward condition, the children were administered two ideational fluency tasks, Unusual Uses and Pattern Meanings. Analyses revealed a significant main effect for reward on the ideational fluency components of originality, total fluency, and flexibility. In all cases the rewarded subjects scored lower than the nonrewarded group. These findings support the growing body of evidence that rewards are detrimental to creative functioning.<p /> 
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SN  - 0885-2006
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0885-2006(87)90019-6
ID  - ref1
ER  -