Friendly, Humorous, Incompetent? On the Influence of Emoticons on Interpersonal Perception in the Workplace

Individual Rank and Response: Survey-Based Evidence on the Effects of Rank-Based Performance Feedback

Motivating Low-Achievers—Relative Performance Feedback in Primary Schools

Abstract Relative performance feedback (RPF) has often been shown to improve effort and performance in the workplace and educational settings. Yet, many studies also document substantial negative effects of RPF, in particular for low-achievers. We study a novel type of RPF designed to overcome these negative effects of RPF on low-achievers by scoring individual performance improvements. With a sample of 400 children, we conduct a class-wise randomized-controlled trial using an e-learning software in regular teaching lessons in primary schools. We demonstrate that this type of RPF significantly increases motivation, effort, and performance in math for low-achieving children, without hurting …

On the Role of Social Comparison Processes in Gamified Work Situations

On the Effects of Relative Performance Feedback in a Risk Elicitation Task: Evidence From a Lab Experiment

This paper experimentally investigates the influence of different non-payoff-relevant feedback regimes on motivation, competitiveness and risk-taking behaviors in a risk elicitation task. We explore four feedback regimes: private feedback, full ranking feedback, top-5 ranking feedback, and non-ranking feedback based on the median performance of peers. We found that providing relative performance feedback increases risk-taking behavior, especially when using a top-5 ranking. Feedback regimes that provide a user with rank-based feedback have adverse effects on the users' attitudes as they increase competitiveness while failing to increase intrinsic motivation and performance motivation. In co…

The Effects of Different Emoticons on the Perception of Emails in the Workplace