A new study suggests that penalties are more a more powerful incentive to exercise than rewards.
The Machiavellian conclusion was drawn by a team of University of Pennsylvania researchers who divided a group of 281 overweight employees into three groups that were presented with different types of incentives for taking 7,000 steps a day.
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