Nudge in perspective: A systematic literature review on the ethical issues with nudging

P Kuyer, B Gordijn - Rationality and Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we systematically review the literature on the ethics of nudging. Since the
publication of the book Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein in 2008, a rich literature …

Understanding health behavior change by motivation and reward mechanisms: a review of the literature

MM Michaelsen, T Esch - Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The global rise of lifestyle-related chronic diseases has engendered growing interest among
various stakeholders including policymakers, scientists, healthcare professionals, and …

From libertarian paternalism to nudging—and beyond

A Barton, T Grüne-Yanoff - Review of Philosophy and psychology, 2015 - Springer
How can the government influence people to make better decisions about health, wealth
and happiness without coercing them? This question has motivated legal scholar Cass …

The power to nudge

AT Schmidt - American Political Science Review, 2017 - cambridge.org
Nudging policies rely on behavioral science to improve people's decisions through small
changes in the environments within which people make choices. This article first seeks to …

[HTML][HTML] Behavioural economics vs social practice theory: Perspectives from inside the United Kingdom government

S Hampton, R Adams - Energy research & social science, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the role of the social sciences in influencing
energy and environmental policy. It presents the views of research professionals inside …

Why behavioural policy needs mechanistic evidence

T Grüne-Yanoff - Economics & Philosophy, 2016 - cambridge.org
Proponents of behavioural policies seek to justify them as 'evidence-based'. Yet they
typically fail to show through which mechanisms these policies operate. This paper shows …

The challenges of behavioural insights for effective policy design

CR Kuehnhanss - Policy and Society, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Behavioural insights are becoming increasingly popular with policy practitioners. Findings
and methods originally provided by cognitive psychology and later behavioural economics …

Influence of and resistance to nudge decision-making in professionals

M Balconi, C Acconito, K Rovelli, L Angioletti - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study investigated how professionals' decision-making is influenced by nudging and
their resistance to such a form of conditioning. A total of 61 professionals performed a nudge …

Optimal nudging for cognitively bounded agents: A framework for modeling, predicting, and controlling the effects of choice architectures.

F Callaway, M Hardy, TL Griffiths - Psychological Review, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
People's decisions often deviate from classical notions of rationality, incurring costs to
themselves and society. One way to reduce the costs of poor decisions is to redesign the …

On the ethics of public nudging: Autonomy and agency

C Schubert - Available at SSRN 2672970, 2015 - papers.ssrn.com
Nudges, ie, low-cost interventions that steer people's behavior without compromising their
freedom of choice, are the key contribution of 'Libertarian Paternalism'(LP) to public policy …