Motivate vs Overjustification - What's the difference?
motivate | overjustification |
To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage.
* The weekly staff meeting was meant to motivate employees.
To animate; to propel; to cause to take action
* He was motivated purely by self-interest.
* Steam motivated pumps are used in manufacturing.
Excessive justification.
(psychology) Specifically , external incentives for an already-internally-motivated behavior, which risk the loss of the original motivation.