科学研究发现吃披萨能提高工作效率

披萨比金钱的力量更大——至少，科学是这么说的。杜克大学（Duke）教授丹·艾瑞里在即将出版的新书《回报：影响人们动机的隐藏逻辑》（Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations）中引用了一份研究，其中表示，工厂里的员工在得到承诺有披萨吃之后，他们的工作产出提高了6.7%。实际上，在提高产出方面，披萨的奖励比金钱或是赞赏更加有效。没问题，我们接受表扬无效的说法——请收起你的称赞和幽默，给我一块西西里馅饼，谢谢——但是为什么金钱的效果也不如披萨？

在2013年美国公共广播公司（PBS）播送的一次采访中，艾瑞里解释了奖励的情景——因为披萨会被送到工人的家里，这会让他们觉得自己仿佛“是家人眼中的英雄”。他还解释道，工厂的产出每隔几天测量一次，研究人员发现，在奖励评估期结束以后，获得经济奖励的工人的产出出现了明显下降：“用金钱奖励工人时，一旦停止发钱，工人就会说：‘我是为钱工作的。你不给我钱？那我不努力工作了。’”

综上所述，我们强烈建议把披萨的激励效果用于生活之中。你可以用它激励你的配偶和孩子，为什么不试试呢？（财富中文网）

译者：严匡正

Pizza is more powerful than money—at least, that’s what science says. According to a study cited in Duke Professor Dan Ariely’s upcoming book Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations, workers in a factory increased their output by 6.7% when promised pizza. In fact, the pizza reward beat out both money and praise in productivity increase. Yeah, OK, we get the praise thing—you can keep your compliments and pleasantries, give me a corner slice of Sicilian, thanks—but why turn down money?

In a 2013 interview aired on PBS, Ariely explained the context of the rewards—positing that since the pizza would be delivered to the workers’ homes, it would make them seem “like heroes in the eyes of their families.” He also explained that factory productivity was measured over the course of a few days, during which researchers found that the workers promised a financial reward significantly dropped in productivity after the bonus evaluation period ended: “When you condition people on money, all of a sudden when money is not offered, you say, ‘I work for money. You’re not offering me money? I’m not working very hard.”

All this said, we strongly recommend applying pizza motivation to your own lives. Try it on your spouse and your children, too, because why not. Here’s a slideshow of to-die-for pizza to get you started. To make your own pizza at home, consider working with one of these four DIY crusts. Look for toppings inspiration? Here are 28 of our favorites—including this home-run five-star recipe (reviewed by 2,900 people!) for pizza Margherita. Are you motivated yet?