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Mere-measurement effect

People asked what they intend to do become more likely to act in accordance with their answers. For example, if people are asked whether they intend to eat certain foods, to diet, or to exercise, their answers to the questions will affect their behavior.

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The book introduces “nudge theory”, a system for influencing decision making without restricting options.In order to nudge people towards making certain decisions, the authors advocate for “choice architecture”. Choice Architecture is the practice of influencing choices by organising the context in which they are made. The irony is that behavioral economics, having attacked Homo Economicus as an empirically false description of human choice, now proposes, in the name of paternalism, to enshrine the very same fellow as the image of what people should want to be. Read It with a grain of salt

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