Why do people come to reject climate science or the safety and efficacy of vaccines, in
defiance of the scientific consensus? A popular view explains bad beliefs like these as …

There is intense public interest in questions surrounding how children learn to read and how
they can best be taught. Research in psychological science has provided answers to many …

We examine the effectiveness in field settings of seven healthy eating nudges, classified
according to whether they are (1) cognitively oriented, such as “descriptive nutritional …

Nudging or 'choice architecture'refers to strategic changes in the environment that are
anticipated to alter people's behaviour in a predictable way, without forbidding any options …

Exercising self-control is often difficult, whether declining a drink in order to drive home
safely, passing on the chocolate cake to stay on a diet, or ignoring text messages to finish …

Environmental policies are increasingly informed by behavioral economics insights.'Green
nudges' in particular have been suggested as a promising new tool to encourage …

In this paper, we provide a domain‐general scoping review of the nudge movement by
reviewing 422 choice architecture interventions in 156 empirical studies. We report the …

In 2008, the behavioral economist Richard Thaler and the legal scholar Cass Sunstein
published a book in which they advocated a novel approach to public policy based on the …

High rates of overweight, obesity and chronic disease are partly attributable to an increased
prevalence of poor dietary choices, which are in part due to the modern environment being …

Much of the global burden of disease is associated with behaviors—overeating, smoking,
excessive alcohol consumption, and physical inactivity—that people recognize as health …