Researchers question the theoretical background and empirical evidence of SDT concerning rewards,behavior, and intrinsic motivation

• Find contradicting results and conclude that negative effects of rewards or controlled motivations are limited, and that rewards can in certain situations function as strong catalysts of motivation
• When studying SDT, researchers have given subjects unfamiliar and novel asks with relatively intrinsically motivated participants who perform tasks on a single occasion, which is very different from the classroom reality
• In the classroom, the tasks and topics are often repeated, and many times considered boring, meanin gintrinsic motivation would seem to fail under such conditions according to SDT