A pilot study conducted by a group of researchers in the Brown School of Public Health examined whether small payments could motivate students to exercise. Twenty-two undergraduate students participated and were split into two groups; a control group that did not receive monetary incentives and an experimental group that did. Kelly Strohacker, current assistant professor of Exercise Physiology in the Department of Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sports Studies, was a postdoctoral researcher and lead author of the article published in the November issue of American Journal of Health Behavior.
