Experiencing default nudges: autonomy, manipulation, and choice-satisfaction as judged by people themselves

Beyond nudges: Tools of a choice architecture

The way a choice is presented influences what a decision-maker chooses. This paper outlines the tools available to choice architects, that is anyone who present people with choices. We divide these tools into two categories: those used in structuring the choice task and those used in describing the choice options. Tools for structuring the choice task address the idea of what to present to deci...

Helping people help themselves

Differences in Semantic Relatedness as Judged by Humans and Algorithms

Quantifying the semantic relatedness of two terms is a field with vast amounts of research, as the knowledge provided by it has applications for many Natural Language Processing problems. While many algorithmic measures have been proposed, it is often hard to say if one measure outperforms another, since their evaluation often lacks meaningful comparisons to human judgement on semantic relatedn...

Strength of evidence, judged probability, and choice under uncertainty.

This paper traces, within subjects, the relationship between assessed strength of evidence, judgments of probability, and decisions under uncertainty. The investigation relies on the theoretical framework provided by support theory (Tversky & Koehler, 1994; Rottenstreich & Tversky, 1997), a nonextensional model of judgment under uncertainty. Fans of professional basketball (N = 50) judged the p...

Decisional enhancement and autonomy: public attitudes towards overt and covert nudges

Ubiquitous cognitive biases hinder optimal decision making. Recent calls to assist decision makers in mitigating these biases—via interventions commonly called “nudges”—have been criticized as infringing upon individual autonomy. We tested the hypothesis that such “decisional enhancement” programs that target overt decision making—i.e., conscious, higher-order cognitive processes—would be more ...