The following article was posted on the Knowledge@Wharton website on February 11, 2014. In 2011, a game called Foldit caused a sensation by solving a decades-old scientific mystery in just three weeks ...

Gamification is everywhere. From rewards programs to fitness apps, adding a game layer on top of the real world has blown up thanks to the power of mobile devices. In the workplace, the drive to ...

Gamification was always just behaviorism dressed up in pixels and point systems. Why did we fall for it? It’s a thought that occurs to every video-game player at some point: What if the weird, ...