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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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"The Hypocrisy Trap helps us recognise the different types of hyprocisy, understand what's behind them and helps us to assess - or reassess - instances of hyprocrisy with more nuance. The book is an invaluable guide to navigating an important subject."
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"Snappy little book filled with good stuff on the behavioral sciences. There's not much you won't find elsewhere, but this is a very accessible and easy read for anyone who is reasonably new to BS. "
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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.”
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― Behavioral Insights
“But in general, having more income produces only a very small shift toward buying premium.”
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― Behavioral Insights