The Fine Line Between Shared and Manipulated Medical Decisions

Byadmin November 7, 2011

See some coverage in Forbes on a debate I participated in at a recent meeting, discussing when decisions are really decisions and when nudges are really shoves.
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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

Do Cigarette Taxes Work?
Byadmin August 22, 2013

Here is a nice picture, from the Wonkblog, summarizing the best evidence to date on whether cigarette taxes reduce smoking. The bottom line here is that cigarette taxes slightly reduce smoking among smokers. That slight reduction reflects, in part, those people who quit smoking because it has simply become too expensive. It also includes people…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

Brain Control and Consumer Behavior
Byadmin January 3, 2013

I teach a course on consumer irrationality and market failure at the Fuqua School of Business. I open up one of my lectures with a brief video demonstration of what psychologists call “the McGurk effect.” (See an example here.) In the video, a man makes the sound “ba ba ba.” About half of my students invariably identify…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

A Self Control App?
Byadmin January 5, 2016

The MacOS has a new self control app called, straightforwardly, SelfControl. The app has an ominous icon, which looks like a cross between a poker game gone wrong and the warning symbol on a bottle of poisonous chemicals: The app gives users the ability to temporarily block websites, which they know they are wasting too…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

Sleepless in the hospital
Byadmin June 21, 2011

I don’t think Tom Hanks will be starring in the movie version of my latest blog post, but click on this link to see an essay I wrote in a medical magazine about how to use insights from behavioral economics to improve patients’ sleep in the hospitals.

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

Emotional Adaptation and Desire
Byadmin August 27, 2014

I’ve done a fair amount of research on how people emotionally adapt to life circumstances. My research is mainly in the context of illness and disability, where people bounce back from adversity more than expected. But people can also emotionally adapt to good things, a very important phenomenon for consumer behavior. We are ecstatic when…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Ethics | Health & Well-being | Uncategorized

Tobacco is Taking Over the World!
Byadmin September 22, 2014

We’ve done a lot of things in the United States over the last few decades to curb tobacco consumption. We’ve warned people cigarettes will kill them, created persuasive ad campaigns to scare people away from cigarettes, and added a hefty tax to the product. As a result, cigarette use in United States is lower than…

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The Fine Line Between Shared and Manipulated Medical Decisions

Do Cigarette Taxes Work?

Brain Control and Consumer Behavior

A Self Control App?

Sleepless in the hospital

Emotional Adaptation and Desire

Tobacco is Taking Over the World!

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