Nudges Do Not Undermine Human Agency: A Note

Do Europeans like nudges?

In recent years, many governments have shown a keen interest in “nudges” — approaches to law and policy that maintain freedom of choice, but that steer people in certain directions. Yet to date, there has been little evidence on whether citizens of various societies support nudges and nudging. We report the results of nationally representative surveys in six European nations: Denmark, France, G...

Missing data in IPF trials: do not let methodological issues undermine a major therapeutic breakthrough.

Affiliations: Service de pneumologie B et transplantation pulmonaire, Hôpital Bichat, APHP, Paris, France. INSERM U1152, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, France. Service de pneumologie A, Hôpital Bichat, APHP, Paris, France. Centre d’épidémiologie Clinique, Groupe Hospitalier Cochin – Hôtel Dieu, Paris, France. INSERM U1153, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France. Natio...

Reflection does not undermine self-interested prosociality

The cognitive basis of prosocial behavior has received considerable recent attention. Previous work using economic games has found that in social dilemmas, intuitive decisions are more prosocial on average. The Social Heuristics Hypothesis (SHH) explains this result by contending that strategies which are successful in daily life become automatized as intuitions. Deliberation then causes partic...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

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Design a clocked synchronous state machine with four inputs, G1–G4, that are connected to pushbuttons. The machine has four outputs, L1–L4, connected to lamps or LEDs located near the like-numbered pushbuttons. There is also an ERR output connected to a red lamp. In normal operation, the L1–L4 outputs display a 1-out-of-4 pattern. At each clock tick, the pattern is rotated by one position; the ...