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The Behavioral Science View of the Pharma Market Research Conference (PMRC)

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Nudging for Good Awards 2019: brands nudging for consumers, the community & the planet

Recycling, nutrition and gender equality are the main topics rewarded at the 2019 edition of the Nudging for Good Awards, organized by the AIM-European Brands Association (which gathers more than 1,800 brands). [...]
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Why don’t we just all go green?

If you have not yet heard how our collective behaviour is stuffing our rivers and oceans with plastics, and pumping carbon into the atmosphere and therefore fuelling climate change, welcome back to Earth. It won’t be long before you do. [...]
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Persuasion is Not Enough

Approaching Communication from a Behavioral Science Lens As marketers and insights professionals, we are firmly grounded in the art of persuasion. We’ve been trained to think in terms of creative approaches and convincing arguments. [...]
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Embracing Behavioral Science: A New Year’s Resolution for Businesses

As January arrives, we often find ourselves focused on annual resolutions. And quite often, many of our self-improvement goals (living healthier, saving more, reducing impact, etc.) sound familiar, as we’ve made them before and failed to follow-through.   [...]
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What’s the Rush? How Retailers Can Use Behavioral Science to Nudge Against Rush Shipping

We are heading into the time of year in which getting gifts for loved ones or friends has a cold hard deadline: you got to have it by the holiday you celebrate, whichever that might be. With “rush shipping”, though, it has become increasingly easier to procrastinate on our shopping [...]
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Nudge Comic #11: How We Make Decisions – System 1 And System 2

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Behavioral Smart Cities: A Behavioral Approach to Improving Urban Efficiency and Quality of Life

In this article we discuss how cities can enhance their smart city systems by incorporating a behavioral approach – a design layer that leverages their hardware, infrastructure and data to promote behaviors that are in alignment with civic goals. Without these behavioral enhancements, smart city systems are unlikely to solve [...]
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The ease of paying

If there is one thing that unites people, it might be that we don’t like paying. I don’t just mean the fact that paying generally means that we end up with less money (which is why we are so attracted by things that are, or appear to be, free – but [...]
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Nudge Comic #10: The Anchoring Effect And Campbell Soup

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Southeastern Rail: Nudging to reduce passenger-caused delays

People are creatures of habit, and nowhere is this more evident than on our daily commute to work. [...]
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No, Nudge Is Not Re-Marketed Psychology

No, nudge is not re-marketed psychology. It is a real, genuine revolution in the way that economic agents are encouraged to act towards a desired objective. [...]
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Can we nudge ourselves toward a healthier world?

“What if everybody did that?” Many a parent has used this phrase when they’re trying to teach their offspring good manners, like not dropping litter in the park. What they may not realise is that they’re using an established economic concept – the so-called tragedy of the commons. This describes what can [...]
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Nudge Comic #8: What Is The Framing Effect?

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Nudge Comic #7: A Few Useful Behavioral Tools

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Nudge Comic #6: What Is A Bias?

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Don’t Forget The Science Underpinning Nudging

“A little bit of science takes man away from God, much science leads him back.” This quote from Pasteur could easily be applied to nudging*. Of course, we are not placing nudging on the same level as God, but consider: “A little science takes you away from nudging, much science [...]
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Nudging Ostriches

Have you heard of Abilene? If you have (and you don’t actually live there!), it’s most likely because you know of the so-called Abilene paradox, a term coined by Jerry Harvey in 1974. If not, then here is a quick summary of that paradox. [...]
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Nudge Comic #5: How to keep our city tidy?

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Sciencing the sh*t out of communications

In the Oscar-nominated movie ‘The Martian’ Matt Damon plays a NASA botanist stuck on Mars. His crew have departed as they have (reasonably) assumed he has been killed by an accident during their mission. [...]
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Improving customer experience in a clinic

The concepts of “System 1” and “System 2” decision making, first described in Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow, have vastly increased our understanding of human behavior. [...]
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Nudge comic #4: What is choice architecture?

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G.I. Joe and the Battle of Transformational Change

We talk to corporations, government offices and NGOs all the time that face challenges to growing their businesses, realizing goals for sustainable practices and tackling issues like diversity. They all acknowledge or at least manifest a desire to commit to programs that will help them achieve transformational change. [...]
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Nudge Comic #3: How to incentivize medical staff to wash their hands

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Behavioral Science and the Sharing Economy: Nudging to Promote Safety on Electric Scooters

This is the first in a series of blogposts on using behavioral design to improve the sharing economy. [...]
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Nudge comic #2: The power of scents

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The misbehaving employee

What do you think of when you see the term organization? Does it evoke images of organization charts, reporting lines or role and responsibility descriptions? Or perhaps it conjures up business processes, procedures and rules, appraisals, objectives and targets. [...]
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Nudge comic #1 : What is a Nudge?

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United Nations Women: Nudging a Global Movement for Gender Equality

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Moving From Intent to Action: Identifying the Right Nudge Opportunity

As January turns to February, we often become very aware of the gap between our Intentions and our Actions. After all, this is when many of our New Year’s Resolutions fade away, falling victim to our firmly established habits. Of course, the same thing also happens in business. Employees [...]
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