Editing Incentive (section)

==Classification==

Classified by [[David Callahan]], the types of incentives can be further broken down into three broad classes according to the different ways in which they motivate agents to take a particular course of actions:<ref>{{Cite book|last=Callahan|first=David|title=The cheating culture: Why more Americans are doing wrong to get ahead|publisher=Harcourt|year=2004|isbn=9780156030052}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Dalkir|first=Kimiz|title=Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice|publisher=The MIT Press|year=2011|isbn=9780262015080|edition=Second }}</ref>

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!Class
!Definition 
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|Remunerative incentives (or financial incentives)
|Exist where an agent can expect some form of a material reward like money in exchange for acting in a particular way.<ref name=":2" />
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|Moral incentives
|Exist where a particular choice is widely regarded as the right thing to do or is particularly admirable among others.<ref name=":2" /> An agent acting on a moral incentive can expect a sense of positive self-esteem, and praise or admiration from their community. However, an agent acting against a moral incentive can expect a sense of guilt, condemnation or even [[ostracism]] from the community.<ref name=":2" />
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|Coercive incentives
|Exist where an agent can expect that the failure to act in a specific way will result in physical force being used against them by others – for example, by inflicting pain, or by imprisonment, or by confiscating or destroying their possessions.<ref name=":2" />
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