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On an insightful learning task, Ss did not perform significantly different in pay and no-pay situations. Increasing the amount of money did not affect the results. Performance was significantly affected only by prior experience with materials involved in the task. These results indicated that insightful performance by humans can be facilitated by increasing familiarity with the task but not by presentation of external rewards.
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Viesti, C.R. Effect of monetary rewards on an insight learning task. Psychon Sci 23, 181–183 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336066
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