"internal reward" is an appropriate phrase to use in written English.
It is used to describe when someone gives themselves a sense of accomplishment or pleasure from the completion of an activity. For example, "I found a great sense of internal reward after finishing my first 5K race."
Self-serving bias is quite likely to cause some form of internal reward, in that positive events tend to be more internally attributed than negative ones.
Zollman is looking to tweak the internal reward system of science to promote better outcomes.
The research could eventually lead to a better understanding of what kind of internal reward system motivates mice to dig, or tells them to stop.
Meanwhile, Thomas Donaldson, a professor of corporate governance and business ethics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, suggested that drug makers would do better to re-examine their internal reward systems than to enact corporate governance changes that seem divorced from the way the companies really do business.
Your internal reward system shrinks, your motivation ebbs, and withdrawal, from society or activities you used to enjoy, may naturally seem like the best option.
A study by an international research team has shown a correlation between frequent gaming and a greater volume of grey matter in a part of the brain linked to an internal reward system associated with addiction.
But he speaks of other, internal rewards.
If the internal rewards were rich, the external ones came slowly.
The table below describes examples of measures that can be used to assess internal rewards and external stresses.
The intensity of training and the internal rewards associated with shaping appear to be the major factors in making the therapy work for children, Dr. Taub said.
"We have a nice set of internal rewards for innovation and progress that recognize scientists for their quality research.
