Study shows empathy grows when people feel rewarded for others’ joy. Emotional rewards create lasting care, even without ...

NEW YORK, July 30 (UPI) -- A new study in which people were paid to stop using cellphones while driving has drawn criticism for spending $1.84 million in federal taxpayers' money.

While rewards or incentives may be successful in encouraging patients to enroll in online health management programs, they may not be enough to keep patients engaged in the program, according to a ...

Empathy isn't just innate — it can be trained by associating another person’s happiness with personal rewards.

Rewards-based systems work to bring people into an online health management program, but they don't do much to encourage sustained engagement, according to a study recently published in the Journal of ...

The study included participants from the U.S., Singapore and India to get a broad range of backgrounds and found different results in Western and non-Western respondents.

From addiction to everyday decision-making, impulsivity shapes much of our behavior. A new study reveals how dopamine, reward size, and learned expectations combine to push us toward premature actions ...

WEIGHT-LOSS, DIABETES DRUGS LINKED TO VISION PROBLEMS IN SMALL STUDY "Rewards, or achieving goals, are important to helping us make future decisions, so if our brains are responding differently ...

NEW YORK, July 30 (UPI) -- A new study in which people were paid to stop using cellphones while driving has drawn criticism for spending $1.84 million in federal taxpayers' money. "Because such a ...