Follow the Science - Perverse Incentives

Governments often try to modify human behavior. Not always successfully. A perverse incentive is an incentive that has an unintended and undesirable result that is contrary to the intentions of its designers. It is a wide-spread phenomenon in organizations and society at large. For instance rewarding the military-industrial complex for war or the pharmaceutical industry for keeping people sick (an develop medicines to treat the sickness).

This interview is part of a series of talks about psychological phenomena: Psychology in Practise: https://followthescience.nl/psychology-in-practice.html