Cultural evolutionary behavioural science in public policy
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چکیده
Abstract Interventions are to the social sciences what inventions physical – an application of science as technology. Behavioural has emerged a powerful toolkit for developing public policy interventions changing behaviour. However, translation from principles practice is often moderated by contextual factors such culture that thwart attempts generalize past successes. Here, we discuss cultural evolution framework addressing this gap. We describe history behavioural and role plays natural next step. review research may be considered evolutionary in policy, promise challenges designing informed interventions. Finally, value applied crucial test basic science: if theories, laboratory field experiments do not work real world, they at all.
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavioural public policy
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2398-0648', '2398-063X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2022.40