In most western cultures, the standard tool we reach for is the negative. If you want to get someone to not do something, well, our standard response is find a way to lock it down or to threaten them. i'm just curious whether all this learning that you and your peers have been doing might provide us with some clever opportunity to think about using some kind of reward more than we're doing currently.
How is “negative reinforcement” different from punishment? Could positive reinforcement encourage prosocial behavior on a national scale? And what’s the deal with Taiwan’s dog-poop lottery?