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Behavioral Insights (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
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The Hypocrisy Trap: How Changing What We Criticize Can Improve Our Lives
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Mindspace Influencing Behaviour Through Public Policy
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Casey's review
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The Hypocrisy Trap: How Changing What We Criticize Can Improve Our Lives:
"Hypocrisy was something that I never really thought in depth about, and generally assumed hypocrisy = bad. This book does a good job of peeling back the layers to assessing types of hypocrisy and their impacts, what we should reconsider, and how we m"
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Nick Down's review
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The Hypocrisy Trap: How Changing What We Criticize Can Improve Our Lives:
"An enjoyable, thought-provoking and significant book. Michael achieves a really fine balance between a clear argument and supporting structure, compelling academic evidence and a leavening mix of literary, contemporary and personal illustrations. His"
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Michael Kaemingk's review
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The Hypocrisy Trap: How Changing What We Criticize Can Improve Our Lives:
"This is an essential and timely treatment of hypocrisy that spoke directly to my own felt sense of anger at our current political moment and those with different political beliefs than my own. It made clear my own tolerance of hypocrisy was mis-calib"
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Read as a distraction during the holiday period - you can comfortably do this in a day. I knew the famous central hook of the story (murder glimpsed through the windows of two trains running alongside each other), but couldn't remember actually having ...more |
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Good, but with clear flaws. This is clearly a book that Paul Auster enjoyed writing, and that is the source of both its strengths and its weaknesses. On the positive side, there's great fluidity and confidence in the writing. Auster really seems to kn ...more |
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“Financial incentives are undoubtedly a powerful influence on behavior. However, as suggested in chapter 1, behavioral insights can also be used to design them in more effective ways. For example, in one study giving financial rewards for group outcomes resulted in greater healthy weight loss compared with rewarding individual performance: the added motivation to not let down a teammate supercharged the promise of financial gain.”
― Behavioral Insights
― Behavioral Insights
“Behavioral science should help officials understand the “behavioral dimension” of their policies and actions, rather than just focusing on new interventions.”
― Behavioral Insights
― Behavioral Insights
“But in general, having more income produces only a very small shift toward buying premium.”
― Behavioral Insights
― Behavioral Insights
