Wish your family would help out with the laundry or yard work? Want your coworkers to do their part in projects? A research team out of MIT and Harvard Medical School using MRI brain scans found that folks are more likely to offer a helping hand if you praise them for the work they do, for instance, by saying, “Good job!” Turns out, praise excites the same areas of the brain that get stimulated when we’re given money. And the more times those areas are activated the more we want to experience that good feeling again.
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