Crowdsourcing is gaining popularity amongst businesses and behavioral researchers due to its ease of use and its potential for conducting large-scale research at low costs. However, obtaining high-quality, on-time output from workers can be challenging. A wide of approaches across different disciplines have been tried to improve worker performance, but no consensus has been reached so far. We use a survey to elicit motivations from workers along with the combination of a lottery-decision task and a choice experiment to determine if worker motivations have an effect on worker performance. We also investigate the effects of administering a cheap talk script to workers on their performance. Samples are taken from the US and India to identify if any geographical differences exist. We find the administration of a cheap talk script has only effect on workers. While some differences are detected in performance, we are unable to establish a solid relationship between motivations and performance.