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 | Choice & Behavior | Ethics

Time To Ban Kid-Friendly Flavors For E-Cigarettes
Bypeter January 14, 2020January 21, 2020

Cinnamon. Buttered popcorn. Strawberry and banana. Yummy tastes and smells that have lingered in my TV room, after my teenage son and his friends finish vaping. E-cigarette companies like Juul are creating flavors designed to lure young customers, following a tradition established by their cigarette-manufacturing predecessors. For a while, the Trump administration appeared poised to…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Health Policy

If You Want to Avoid a C-Section Choose Your Hospital Wisely
Byadmin March 6, 2019

We have an epidemic of C-sections in the US, now accounting for almost 1 in 3 births. That represents a 50% increase since the mid-90s, despite all the advances we’ve seen in obstetrical care. Sometimes C-sections are critical to saving the life of either baby or mother. But C-sections are major surgical procedures, with commensurate risks….

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Political Psychology

Has Obamacare Made Restaurants Partisan?
Byadmin April 10, 2014

Politics in the US is discouragingly partisan. National politics has become increasingly partisan since at least the late ’60s, when the passage of civil rights legislation influenced many conservative southern Democrats to join the Republican Party. Even state politics has become more partisan, where even famously nice people in Wisconsin have found themselves battling their neighbors across…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

Stopping Unhealthy Eating with a Traffic Light
Byadmin February 6, 2014

In a recently published article, a team of researchers showed that a simple graphical cue, showing people which foods are healthy and unhealthy, significantly improve their eating behaviors. Here is a nice summary of the study results, as summarized on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation website: With a problem as large as America’s obesity epidemic,…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

A Clever Way to Promote Recycling
Byadmin June 3, 2014

Behavioral science has taught me that subtle environmental cues can have a surprisingly strong influence on people. I don’t know if the following cue was purposeful or not, but the relative size of these two receptacles – the blue one being the recycling one of course – definitely sends a strong signal about how much…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

Are You Smarter than a Radiologist?
Byadmin February 20, 2013

Notice anything unusual about this CT scan? On the upper right side is an image of a gorilla. According to a new study, 83% of radiologists missed this image. They had been looking through a series of scans, looking for “pulmonary nodules”—growths in the lung, in other words. The early scans included such nodes, and…

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The Fine Line Between Shared and Manipulated Medical Decisions

Time To Ban Kid-Friendly Flavors For E-Cigarettes

If You Want to Avoid a C-Section Choose Your Hospital Wisely

Has Obamacare Made Restaurants Partisan?

Stopping Unhealthy Eating with a Traffic Light

A Clever Way to Promote Recycling

Are You Smarter than a Radiologist?

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