In order to determine whether small initial successes lock-in or fade away, van de Rijt and colleagues (2014) intervened into four different systems bestowing success on randomly selected participants, and then measured the long-term impacts of this arbitrary success.
[ ] Ukuze anqume ukuthi ngabe izimo abaphumelela encane sokuqala Ilokhi-in nobe ishabalale, van de Rijt kanye kanye nozakwabo (2014) wangenela zibe izinhlelo ezine ezihlukene walokho impumelelo iqhaza ngezikhathi ezikhethiwe, bese kulinganiswa imithelela yesikhathi eside kule mpumelelo ngokungenasizathu.