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What's new in behavioral science and behavioral economics — how nudges, incentives, and cognitive biases shape decisions in healthcare, finance, risky behaviors, environment, charitable donations, and beyond.
Unknown Host hosts Incentives Matter, a general show with 25 episodes published.
This episode explores how misaligned incentives in healthcare can inadvertently encourage patients to get sicker, drawing a parallel to the "cobra effect." It discusses how financial structures like fee-for-service and D
This episode explores new research challenging the conventional wisdom of eliminating all bias from AI, suggesting that stripping away certain cognitive biases might create a "sociopathic optimizer." It distinguishes bet
This episode explores the counterintuitive finding that optimal AI advice can often lead to worse human performance, attributing this to a psychological cost where explicit commands diminish a user's autonomy and engagem
This episode explores how GLP-1 drugs, beyond their well-known effects on weight loss and appetite suppression, profoundly impact other addictive behaviors, particularly alcohol and nicotine consumption. Listeners will l
This episode explores the surprising academic benefits of school-wide mobile phone bans, revealing that such policies can lead to significant learning gains equivalent to an extra week of schooling. Listeners will learn
This episode explores the fascinating paradox where the public often interprets Federal Reserve interest rate hikes, intended to combat inflation, as a sign that inflation is actually getting worse. It delves into the be
This episode explores how specific low-frequency sounds, known as infrasound, particularly around 18 hertz, can induce feelings of dread, anxiety, and even visual hallucinations, often mistaken for supernatural encounter
This episode explores how banks profit immensely from customer inertia, or "sleepy customers," who leave an estimated $18 trillion in deposits earning minimal interest. It delves into the behavioral economics behind why
This episode explores a critical perspective on waste management, highlighting the limitations of the "I-Frame" approach which primarily focuses on individual actions like household recycling. It argues that while indivi
This episode explores the "decumulation dilemma" in retirement, focusing on annuities as a financial product designed to provide guaranteed lifetime income and mitigate longevity risk. It delves into the strong economic
This episode explores why digital self-control tools often fail as users disengage or adapt over time. It introduces the concept of "nudge reconfiguration prompts" as a solution, which are interventions designed to encou
This episode explores the critical impact of "context switching" in surgical settings, revealing how even brief shifts in a healthcare professional's cognitive focus can lead to significant and potentially deadly adverse
This episode explores how the common phrase "it depends," often perceived as a sign of wisdom, can actually be a significant behavioral barrier to collective progress and democracy. It delves into the "lukewarm middle,"
This episode explores the influential concept of 'nudge' in behavioral science, detailing its original vision as a subtle, libertarian paternalistic tool for guiding better decisions. It then examines how this idea has e
This episode explores the perplexing phenomenon of low flu vaccine uptake among healthcare workers in China, despite their medical knowledge and the significant public health risks involved. It delves into the behavioral
This episode challenges the pervasive narrative of widespread generative AI adoption, presenting new U.S. Census Bureau data that reveals only 23% of firms currently use AI for work-related tasks. It explains how the 'Av
This episode explores why efficient market-based climate policies, such as carbon taxes, are frequently rejected by the public in favor of less efficient command-and-control standards. It delves into a new NBER working p
This episode explores a powerful critique of the behavioral science 'nudge' movement by its own architects, Nick Chater and George Loewenstein. They argue that the field's intense focus on individual-level interventions
This episode delves into a new NBER paper that uncovers a fundamental human flaw: our distorted perception of warning signals. It explores how people irrationally value the accuracy of alarms, often overvaluing inaccurat
This episode explores a new study that challenges the common assumption that digital monitoring tools and "nudges" improve remote team productivity. It reveals that these interventions often backfire, significantly reduc
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