In both developing and developed countries, health ministries closely examine use of so-called nudges to promote population health and welfare. Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, who developed the concept, define a nudge as “any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives. ...

nudges are small, often imperceptible changes to how particular decisions present themselves to individuals that are meant to influence those decisions. in his editorial, ‘nudging by shaming, shaming by nudging’, eyal highlights links between nudges and feelings of shame on the part of the ‘chooser’. in this commentary, i suggest two further distinctions between different types of shame-based n...

Smartphone users are often unaware of the data collected by apps running on their devices. We report on a study that evaluates the benefits of giving users an app permission manager and of sending them nudges intended to raise their awareness of the data collected by their apps. Our study provides both qualitative and quantitative evidence that these approaches are complementary and can each pl...

Social media continues to lead imprudent users into oversharing, exposing them to various privacy threats. Recent research thus focusses on nudging the user into the ‘right’ direction. In this paper, we propose Comparison-based Privacy (CbP), a design paradigm for privacy nudges that overcomes the limitations and challenges of existing approaches. CbP is based on the observation that comparison...

In any health care crisis, the first priority is to improve the patient’s condition. But this priority is not absolute as it is normally subject to the patient’s (or someone on her behalf) approval. This can sometimes lead to serious difficulties when the patient on epistemological (the patient may be ignorant or misinformed), political (the patient may have political objections to a particular...

in both developing and developed countries, health ministries closely examine use of so-called nudges to promote population health and welfare. cass sunstein and richard thaler, who developed the concept, define a nudge as “any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives. ...

One common criticism of “nudges” — general-purpose interventions derived from behavioral science that can be applied to a range of policy objectives — is that such interventions are manipulative and coercive. In this article we show that this criticism sometimes reflects a partisan nudge bias, whereby attitudes toward policy goals or policymakers distort feelings about policy interventions. In ...

The effectiveness of nudges in raising the welfare of the population hinges on the policymakers employing them. A frequent criticism based on a logical inconsistency questions policymakers' immunity from the psychological biases of individuals that are the very foundation of nudging interventions. We argue that, rather than being concerned about policymakers' incapacity to raise the population'...

Self-Regulated Learning increases the effectiveness of education and self-control has a high impact on the successful life generally. Cognitive biases heavily influence the decision making process, often against interests of those who make them. Therefore technological solutions that would support metacognitive scaffolding of learners may be very helpful. Our approach is based on Personal Learn...