“Could?” It absolutely does, and will. There’s much research on rewards and long term motivation. See Alfie Kohn’s Punished by Rewards and it’s 30+ pages of re

“Could?” It absolutely does, and will. There’s much research on rewards and long term motivation. See Alfie Kohn’s Punished by Rewards and it’s 30+ pages of references including experiment descriptions. Humans are not rats and birds, children are not pets to train, despite common parenting practices and school systems based on punishment and rewards. Basically if you want a child to stop enjoying something, reward them for doing it (praise is also reward). Trains them to devalue the thing, to focus on the reward, and to stop doing the thing without a reward. Similarly with punishment constant policing becomes necessary and the child stops being honest. The human brain is designed to optimize for success.