The study reveals that over 19% of American workers consider their jobs socially useless. These individuals rarely experience the feelings of making a positive impact on their community, doing useful work, or contributing to society.
The overjustification effect is a phenomenon in which being rewarded for doing something actually diminishes intrinsic motivation to perform that action.
Our relationship with our relationships sits at a historically awkward moment. Science tells us that relationships are more important than ever – the key ingredient to our happiness, as important to our health as not smoking. Researchers have found that people who lack robust relationships die younger on average. Yet newspapers remind us daily that we seem to be getting worse at forming and maintaining our interpersonal connections.