#nudges — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nudges, aggregated by home.social.
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PsyPost: AI models are far more susceptible to misleading nudges than humans, study shows. “A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides evidence that AI agents overreact to minor cues in their environments, responding to these nudges much more strongly than humans do. This hypersensitivity suggests that relying on current language models for […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/15/psypost-ai-models-are-far-more-susceptible-to-misleading-nudges-than-humans-study-shows/ -
Robert Noggle has revised his SEP-entry on The Ethics of Manipulation,
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-manipulation/
What a savoury topic, even without explicit references to sycophantic AI!
#autonomy #coercion #manipulation #ethics #freeWill #decision #deception #lying #marketing #paternalism #filosofia #etiikka #philosophy #morality #oppression #nudges #person #sycophantic #ai #generativeAI #criticism #criticalThinking
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The need for healthy #diets from sustainable food systems links to challenges like #climatechange, #biodiversity loss & #obesity. Governance for sustainable #foodsystems is centred on the idea of #nudges. Yet, as product #price is often the primary driver for consumers… (1/2) doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
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🧠🏔️ I’m sharing presentations from the Society for Judgment and Decision Making conference in #Denver at the URL below:
https://bsky.app/profile/byrdnick.com/post/3m6agtctbhc2b
My poster is about #argumentMapping and #learningScience. You will also find presentations about how to advance #cogSci with #AI tools, do #ProcessTracing in #Qualtrics without #coding, and avoid backfiring in #healthcare #nudges.
Follow to fight FOMO and enjoy #openAccess conferencing.
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Some #medical #nudges that didn't work:
Most (of a dozen) clinician-facing #ElectronicHealthRecord deprescribing tools didn't work? https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.19609
Showing clinicians cheaper versions of a drug didn't reduce prescription costs? https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.19038
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This week I share a text message and infographic that improved decisions about #existentialRisk: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/d2pc4
#AntibioticResistance kills many.
Misusing #antibiotics makes matters worse.
IAPHS: https://iaphs.org/conference/conference-program
#Nudges in #Healthcare: https://nudgeunit.my.canva.site/symposium-2025-webpage
#medicine #health #psychology #ethics #Philosophy #xPhi #BioXPhi
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How can #BehSci combat #antimicrobialResistance?
Many patients expect needless #antibiotics (https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2012.140331), which #nudges clinicians to prescribe 'em (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28206788).
So we validated nudges to improve patient expectations (N ≅ 1k): https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/d2pc4_v1
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CW: Linux
“How I hacked my clock to control my focus”
def not a panacea, but worth adding to your #focus / #productivity #nudges
⚠️ requires #Linux 😜
https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-i-hacked-my-clock-to-control-my-focus.md/
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#HealthScience is alive and well at #Geisinger!
Some #Research Symposium highlights
- #GLP1 protocol testing
- #AI-assisted #risk assessment
- #experimentAversion
- #health #nudges
- Dr. Todd Rice on #Vanderbilt's pragmatic trialsAbstracts + #dataViz: https://ugc.production.linktr.ee/092a8266-e67c-4536-87df-cf1e3d7482fd_Research-Symposium-accepted-abstract-catalog-4.9.2025-FINAL.pdf
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(2/x) #Nudges (subtly steering #behavior to desirable actions while maintaining freedom of choice, such as making plant-based food the default option) can increase uptake of #plant-based food. Messaging appeals to more reflective thinking but can also influence food choices: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2025.107886
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How to Accelerate #CodeReviews with #Nudges: Insights from Microsoft’s Study
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6 Types of Nudges Can Affect Your Choices
"New research offers a helpful framework for categorising different types of nudges. Categories are based on six distinct cognitive mechanisms, through which a nudge might influence behaviour: (1) attention, (2) perception, (3) memory, (4) effort, (5) intrinsic motivation and (6) extrinsic motivation." -- #Eva_M_Krockow
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Thanks for reminding me about my _thrilling_ weekend, Apple.
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The #Monopoly experiment on #inequality was conducted in 2006, 10 years before the archetype of entitled cheating power-grabber #Trump got elected. The experiment shows how winners of a rigged game lose empathy & start believing in their own merit. The media extensively covered this experiment at the time; yet the #USA still blasted through, producing more egotistic maniacs like #ElonMusk. #Psy #nudges of #community #compassion do change this dynamic: this work is URGENT🚨 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ8Kq1wucsk&list=PLOGi5-fAu8bGgZFDYGhQ6uywa5GNeA2RT
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Nudging - a behavioral economics developed technique for ensuring compliance and solidifying target engagement. Getting tired of the constant text messages and emails? You’re being #Nudged in a calculated manner. The scientists have developed a comms model using digital tools to ensure you make that doc’s appointment, or don’t miss that sale. I’ll be posting more about this irritating trend in future toots. Stay tuned. #Nudge #Nudges #BehaviorialEconomics #compliance #ComplianceEngineering
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Good read for #BehavioralScience / #BehaviourChange folks...
To me, it is a welcome addition to the idea that, on its own, #BeSci can't save the world. #Nudges are fine but need to be in their right context.
This means balancing then against other levers of change, eg policy, legislation, restrictions etc.
https://www.ft.com/content/91f2a55b-66b2-4573-af5a-afa0deb16f5f
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Great to hear Professor Cass Sunstein at the BEST Centre at the QUT Faculty of Business and Law, and quiz him about the use of graphic health warnings as a nudge in the US and Australia. #behaviouraleconomics #nudges #law #economics #health https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7087307872400781312/
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Next was an enjoyable discussion with Richard Thaler on choice architecture and #nudges at the #LSE. While this is a good overview of the underlying theory and what nudges can and can't do, Thaler's techno-solutionism is troubling, especially when he brings up the superiority of algorithms to people in the bail context (see, for example, https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-compas-recidivism-algorithm) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEkfqQAp6wk (4/6) #psychology
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RT Nives DellaValle 🇪🇺
📣New PoliSpill @EU_ScienceHub Policy brief
Through an online econ experiment with 4000+ ppl, we unveil the power of combining norm #nudges and incentives in promoting #proenvironmentalbehaviour. #climatechange #behaviouraleconomics #econtwitter
@HendirkB
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC134018🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/NivesDellaValle/status/1679864490626514945
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Great introduction to our special issue on COVID19 Collective Irrationalities by Kengo Miyazono and Rie Iizuka #OpenAccess https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09515089.2023.2221929 #paternalism #VaccineHesitancy #ConspiracyTheories #nudges #irrationality #bias @philosophyofmind @epistemology @philosophy @psychology
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Been noticing a new trend in communications from your health care provider? Lots of texts, lots of email reminders? You’re being ‘nudged’. The advent of digital devices and communications/connectivity has led to the use of ‘nudges’ by the medical community - a derivative of behavioral economics. That led one doctor to write this: The Soft Tyranny of Modern Medicine #medicine #healthcare #doctors #behavioralecononomics #nudges https://compactmag.com/article/the-soft-tyranny-of-modern-medicine
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Etica e intelligenza artificiale.
Intervista a Enrico Panai di M. Minetti
Enrico Panai è specialista di interazione uomo-informazione e un ricercatore indipendente in cyber-geografia e etica dell’informazione. Ha
#Economia #Strumenti #Tecnopolitica #attenzione #aziende #bigdata #etica #governamentalità #GPT-4 #machinelearning #nudges #piattaforme #profilazione
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Those ‘kudos’ you can give people on Strava and other physical activity apps, do those #nudges work? Well, yes, but not in the way you might expect.
Nice new research by Rob Franken, Hidde Bekhuis, and Jochem Tolsma from @Radboud_uni
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Is tipping getting out of control? https://apnews.com/article/tipping-fatigue-business-c4ae9d440610dae5e8ff4d4df0f88c35
#Tipping #nudges are very successful. But they have begun to create social pressures that make it doubtful customers feel they are an improvement to their well-being. Their decision making #autonomy is hurt. -
“#Nudges become an attractive mode of action when one has decided to ignore more structural shoves that influence societal inequality”
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When do "Nudges" Increase Welfare?
by Hunt Allcott, Daniel Cohen, William Morrison & Dmitry Taubinsky
They characterize the #welfare effects of #nudges using public finance sufficient statistic approaches.
My understanding of their results: nudges increase beneficial behaviors but also may decrease welfare, because they increase the variance of distortions.