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A daycare started fining parents for picking up their children late. Instead of arriving on time, parents started arriving even later.
Why would a punishment encourage the very behavior it was meant to stop?
Stephen Dubner, bestselling co-author of Freakonomics and longtime host of Freakonomics Radio, has spent more than 20 years uncovering the hidden forces behind human behavior. What he's discovered challenges some of our most deeply held assumptions about why people do what they do.
In this conversation, discover:
- Why punishing bad behavior can actually encourage more of itWhy rewarding students for perfect attendance can make them show up lessThe shocking discovery about teachers who secretly changed their students' test answersWhat drug dealers living with their mothers reveal about how the world really worksWhy Stephen Dubner thinks we're asking the wrong question about AIWhat he believes we'll look back on in 20 years and wonder how we ever acceptedThe surprising lesson about parenting that changed his own life
What if some of our biggest mistakes come not from failing to think, but from being too sure we already know the answers?