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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 Abstract We implement a field experiment to study the impact of reminder messages on dental health prevention. Patients who are due to schedule a check-up receive no reminder, a neutral reminder postcard, or reminders including additional information on the benefits of prevention. Our results document a strong impact of reminders.
Altmann, Steffen, Traxler, Christian
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Behavioural Public Policy, 2016 AbstractWhy are some nudges ineffective, or at least less effective than choice architects hope and expect? Focusing primarily on default rules, this essay emphasizes two reasons for this. The first involves strong antecedent preferences on the part of choosers.
CASS R. SUNSTEIN
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, 2014 Behavioral findings, demonstrating human errors, have led some people to favor choice-preserving responses (“nudges”), and others to favor mandates and bans.
Sunstein, Cass
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Can nudges be used for improved financial wellbeing? [PDF]
, 2021 While behavioural biases, heuristics, and rules of thumb facilitate the decision-making process, they often lead to suboptimal choices. Policy makers exert significant efforts to help individuals make better financial decisions, thus aiming to improve ...
Werner-Masters, Katarzyna
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, 2022 Nudges have become an increasingly popular policy tool and topic for academic discussions. They influence people's behavior through deliberately and smartly designing people's choice environments and framing (information about) their options.
Engelen, Bart; id_orcid
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Who accepts nudges? nudge acceptability from a self-regulation perspective.
PLoS ONE, 2021 BackgroundPublic acceptability of nudging is receiving increasingly more attention, but studies remain limited to evaluations of aspects of the nudge itself or (inferred intentions) of the nudger. Yet, it is important to investigate which individuals are
Laurens C van Gestel +2 more
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Nudge Transparency Is Not Required for Nudge Resistibility
Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2023 In discussions of nudging, transparency is often taken to be important; it is often suggested that a significant moral consideration to take into account when nudging is whether the nudge is transparent. Another consideration taken to be relevant is whether the nudge is easy to resist.
De Marco, G, Douglas, T
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Experiences and Perceptions of Default Nudges [PDF]
, 2021 Of the many challenges we face as individuals and as a society, several of the most important and hardest ones are behavioral. We often know what needs to be done to solve an issue, but struggle to put this knowledge into practice.
Michaelsen, Patrik
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Nudging to prevent the purchase of incompatible digital products online: An experimental study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Ensuring safe and satisfactory online shopping activity, especially among vulnerable consumers such as elderly and less educated citizens, is part of a larger set of consumer policy objectives seeking to strengthen trust in the electronic marketplace ...
Gabriele Esposito +3 more
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Normative Aspects of Nudging in the International Sphere
AJIL Unbound, 2021 The use of nudges—“low-cost, choice-preserving, behaviorally informed approaches to regulatory problems”—has become quite popular at the national level in the past decade or so.
Doron Teichman, Eyal Zamir
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