Every effort deserves a reward.

Winning a Prize has never been an automatic process, a reward that comes for having attained a magical level of achievement.

Now this is the neurological goldmine, if you like, because a known reward excites people, but what really gets them going is the uncertain reward, the reward pitched at the right level of uncertainty, that they didn't quite know whether they were going to get it or not.

It requires that most of an annual bonus not only be deferred for three years, but also that it be put at risk.

Success brings its reward in the form of immediate punishment!

The reward would be acceptance by the rest of the world of China s rise.

(c) A cut in pay for a period of up to seven days

Okay? If you do really well you get the large reward, on down.

Public pessimism in southern Europe is largely attributable to the absence of such a reward.

They are paid extra for technical work and are allowed to correspond with their relatives and friends.

Is it because I'm a professor, and, therefore, I must be entitled to this reward from society?

There is no reason that mining companies should reap this reward for themselves.

Rather, the payoff should be based on the average stock price over a significant period of time.

The dopamine system is associated with reward, attention, short term memory tasks, planning, and motivation.

Gender mainstreaming work should be rewarded through the promotion and salary systems.

And indeed, there are now three academic articles in which they've looked at this attraction, which may only last for a second, but it's a definite attraction, and either this same brain region, this reward system, or the chemicals of that reward system are involved.

And even studies of cooperation show that cooperation between individuals lights up reward centers of the brain.

This reward may present itself in the form of a pay increase, promotion, recognition or sense of accomplishment.

The greater the knowledge, skill, and responsibility attached to a job, the higher the acceptable and accepted reward for doing it.

But the rewards of scientific discovery are worth it technology advances, and the world can become much better for it.

Teens also, however, will take risks because they find the reward (such as instant gratification or peer acceptance) more valuable.

Besides, it is more efficient to reward energy conservation rather than to simply penalize energy use.

This process might also explain why, although many reward systems have proven successful at the beginning, their benefits quickly fade.

Satisfying it has become the great palliative of modern society, our counterfeit reward for working irrational hours.

His reward for exposing this crime was to be imprisoned and mistreated until he died in mysterious circumstances.

Putin s view is that democracy results from a modern economy, a kind of reward for hard work.

The reward for which they ask is peace, a just and enduring peace, and that is what we must bring them .

He claims that he should be rewarded as a fund manager supervising a multibillion dollar fund in the private sector.

An incompetent president of the Commission has had his term renewed for another five years as a reward for his innocuousness.

Thaksin s rural base rewarded him by returning him to power, ignoring his personal corruption.

This suggests that individuals are motivated not only by monetary gains but also by some reward derived from cooperating in social situations.

The apparent payoff was that we could now explain why politicians did so many things that violated economic rationality.

Despite secularization, the belief that rewards, or achievements, require sacrifice has become an integral part of European cultural consciousness.

Animal models are also important to investigate the putative role of specific brain structures, circuits, or processes (e.g., the reward system and drug addiction).

Best practices in working together and enhanced teamwork should be reported back to the respective governing bodies and be rewarded.

According to their testimony, their chiefs had confiscated their weapons and distributed them to others in exchange for a percentage of the disarmament bonus.

While countries can be compensated for planting forests, they cannot be compensated for avoiding deforestation.

Consequently, the job of receiver, though it carries strict liabilities, is highly risky in terms of reward.

Government educates and invests, increasing the supply and reducing the premium earned by skilled workers, and lowering the rate of return on physical capital.

When she graduated, in 1905, the university nominated her for its highest distinction, an award marked by the presentation of a ring engraved with the initials of the emperor.

Since then, a great deal of data on the brain s reward system has accumulated to explain this rewiring more concretely.

In this situation, the payoff for a particular choice is dependent not only on the decision of the individual but also on that of another individual playing the game.

Jesse Fried and I warned about this short term distortion five years ago, in our book Pay without Performance .

But if you believe you're drinking expensive stuff, parts of the brain associated with pleasure and reward light up like a Christmas tree.

Moreover, this brain circuit for reward is working, and you're feeling intense energy, intense focus, intense motivation and the willingness to risk it all to win life's greatest prize.