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Nudge Transparency Is Not Required for Nudge Resistibility
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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Requiem for a Nudge: Framing Effects in Nudging Honesty [PDF]
We examine framing effects in nudging honesty, in the spirit of the growing norm-nudge literature, by utilizing a high-powered and pre-registered study. Across four treatments, participants received one random truthful norm-nudge that emphasized ‘moral suasion based on either what other participants previously did (empirical message) or approved of ...
Dimant, Eugen +2 more
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Nudging, Bullshitting, and the Meta-Nudge
AbstractIn “Nudging, Bullshitting, and the Meta-Nudge”, the author responds to William Simkulet’s claim that nudging is bullshitting (according to Harry Frankfurt’s analysis of bullshit and bullshitting), and therefore nudging during the process of informed consent renders consent invalid.
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Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink: Nudging is Giving Reasons [PDF]
Nudges are, roughly, ways of tweaking the context in which agents choose in order to bring them to make choices that are in their own interests. Nudges are controversial: opponents argue that because they bypass our reasoning processes, they threaten our autonomy.
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The role of a journal such as Clinical Medicine ( ClinMed ) is to be a resource for continuing professional development, but also to showcase examples of good practice. We are pleased in this edition to have a paper by Lewis and colleagues showing how clinicians can be ‘nudged’ towards ...
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Nudging by Shaming, Shaming by Nudging [PDF]
In both developing and developed countries, health ministries closely examine use of so-called nudges to promote population health and welfare. Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, who developed the concept, define a nudge as “any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or ...
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Nudge in the news: Ethics, effects, and support of nudges
Abstract Governments use nudges to stimulate citizens to exercise, save money and eat healthily. However, nudging is controversial. How the media frames nudge impacts decisions on whether to use this policy instrument. We, therefore, analyzed 443 newspaper articles about nudging. Overall, the media was positive about nudges.
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Nudging is a promising approach, in terms of influencing people to make advisable choices in a range of domains, including cybersecurity. However, the processes underlying the concept and the nudge’s effectiveness in different contexts, and in the long term, are still poorly understood.
Verena Zimmermann, Karen Renaud
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Nudging is a concept in behavioural science, political theory and economics that proposes indirect suggestions to try to achieve non-forced compliance and to influence the decision making and behaviour of groups and individuals. Researchers in medical ethics are currently discussing whether nudging is ethically permissible in healthcare.
Mortensen, Anne Helene +2 more
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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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