Opting Out: An Experimental Comparison of Bazaars versus High-Tech Markets

High Tech versus Low Tech Training

The United States Marine Corps has some of the most advanced weapons systems and training in the world, yet they make extensive use of “low tech” training tools. Sand table exercises and tactical decision games are used by Marines all over the world, at sea and on land. Although the U.S. Department of Defense has a nearly $18 billion annual training budget, the Marines choose to teach decision ...

Increasing colonoscopies? A psychological perspective on opting in versus opting out.

OBJECTIVE A growing strategy to enhancing healthy decision making is to modify behavioral options to an "opt out" (i.e., if you do not want to participate, you must act) as opposed to an "opt in" (i.e., if you want to participate, you must act) default system (Choi, Laibson, Madrian, & Metrick). The current study, however, proposes that this growing trend may not always be strategic and examine...

Markets versus negotiations: An experimental investigation

* We are grateful for the suggestions made by Gary Bornstein, Itzhak Gilboa, Daniele Paserman, Marc Rysman, and seminar audiences at the Hebrew University, and at the ESA Meeting in Strasbourg. An associate editor and two anonymous referees provided useful comments. Financial support from the Aims Byudks foundation is gratefully acknowledged. † Corresponding author. Department of Management and...

Obtaining parental consent--opting in or opting out?

In a population based project aimed at identifying children with specified disabilities within a health region, there was, rightly, concern about the transfer of data on named children across health district boundaries. Two methods of obtaining parental consent for this process were tested. High recruitment rates were achieved using an 'opting out' approach.

Defaults, Framing and Privacy: Why Opting In Opting Out