Smartphone usage has evolved in people’s lives from necessity to habit and in some cases leading to compulsive use and addiction. However, only a little research has been performed on the prevention of Problematic Smartphone Usage (PSU). Behavioral economics has been applied to investigate how smartphone users respond to nudges that try to lower their smartphone usage. Findings revealed that th...

Recent years have shown that traditional regulatory techniques alone are not effective in achieving behaviour change important fields such as environmental sustainability. Governments all over the world been progressively including behaviourally informed considerations policy and law making with aim of improving acceptance impact sustainability-oriented measures. This led to arrival alternative...

Abstract Nudge advocates contend that nudges are liberty preserving, while government regulations not. We interrogate assumption by considering negative in the forms suggested proponents of nudges. Specifically, we examine three ways measuring – as freedom choice, absence coercion and interference applying measures to a case study relevant nudge literature: governing healthy food manufacture. s...

Abstract The aim of this study is to respond Cass Sunstein's question: ‘Why are some nudges ineffective, or at least less effective than choice architects hope and expect?’—particularly in view not only the rational basis decision-making but also direct influence emotions on behavior those who must choose. In study, I used findings from psychology surveys, specifically considering fallibility s...

Nudges are increasingly used by governments and organizations to promote behaviors like healthy eating or effective financial planning. Due their cost-effectiveness, such nudges may earn a profit for the nudger. We investigate whether this taints nudges, as suggested recent research showing that altruistic acts can be regarded less favourably if they result in private benefits actor. Across sev...

Basic research in the biomedical field generates both knowledge that has a value per se regardless of its possible practical outcome and knowledge that has the potential to produce more practical benefits. Policies can increase the benefit potential to society of basic biomedical research by offering various kinds of incentives to basic researchers. In this paper we argue that soft incentives o...