82. Which Is More Powerful: Reward or Punishment?

No Stupid Questions

社会与文化

2022-01-16

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  • Everyone get into your seats right now.

  • You're listening to no stupid questions, the podcast that explores the weird and occasionally wonderful ways in which humans behave.

  • Here are your hosts, Stephen Dubner and Angela Duckworth.

  • Angela, I have today the question, I think, to end all questions.

  • Great.

  • We'll be finished with the whole podcast.

  • I think we're done after this drops mic.

  • This is elemental, and you're the person to answer it.

  • Okay, no pressure.

  • And I can't believe it took me a year and a half of making this show to ask you, I'm on tenterhooks.

  • What are tenterhooks anyway?

  • The things you hang a side of beef.

  • Yeah.

  • There's a carcass involved or something.

  • The metaphor works because why?

  • I guess if you're on them, you really want to get off.

  • But doesn't the phrase mean when you're on tenterhooks?

  • Like, I can't wait to.

  • Yeah.

  • Yeah.