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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Choice Architecture"”.
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Cafe nudge project: choice architecture for eating and nudging healthy behaviors
… that could be enhanced to encourage healthy food choices in three Appalachian high schools. The Center for Behavioral Economics and Child Nutrition Program (BEN Center) has collectively conducted prior research on this topic and has coined the term "Smarter Lunchrooms Movement" for improving …
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Redesigning Choice Architecture for the College Selection and Application Process for High School Juniors
Choice architecture, a term coined in the 2008 book Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by behavioral scientist Richard H. Thaler and professor of law Cass R. Sunstein, is the belief that no choice can be neutral because the way in which a choice is presented influences …
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Goal Framing to Encourage More Sustainable Engineering Design Decisions for the Built Environment Across Cultures
… address these barriers through a concept called choice architecture. Professionals who design and construct our built environment use decision tools such as rating systems to inform their design decision making. These tools are inherently embedded with choice architecture. More intentional choice …
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Cognitive Barriers to Energy Efficient Decision Making in US Coast Guard Facility Management
… manuscript research focuses on cognitive bias, choice architecture, and decision making in relation to energy decisions answer this question. Potential impacts cognitive bias has on the decision maker is examined, and if it is possible to design better decision environments to account for …
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Death, Mortality and Consumer Decision Making: Two Essays
… vulnerability (FV) influences insurance policy choices of young, middle aged and senior consumers. Essay 2 investigates how, in funeral planning contexts when consumer may be dealing with significant grief, manipulating choice architecture (via additive vs. subtractive framing of funeral package …
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An Investigation into the Psychology of Socially Responsible Investment Decisions
… of SRI, can potentially utilise framing and choice architecture to increase the prevalence of this form of investing. This important finding enhances the current academic and practitioner literature relating to SRI, whilst also adding additional depth to the literature pertaining to …
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Barriers and Cognitive Biases in the Monitoring-Based Commissioning Process
… specifically, risk aversion, social norms, choice overload, status quo bias, information overload, professional bias, and temporal discounting. The success of choice architecture in other energy efficiency decisions is used to offer suggestions for ways to overcome these cognitive biases. …
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Examining Contributors and Solutions to Prevent and Manage Food Waste in Households with Low Incomes and the Emergency Food System within the U.S.
… Virginia (n=68) to implement marketing-mix and choice-architecture (MMCA) strategies within their food pantries given the changes they had to make in their food distribution models in response to COVID-19 physical distancing requirements. Collectively, the studies described in this PhD …
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Aligning Eye Care Provider Beliefs with Behaviors: Exploring and Improving Ocular Surface Disease Decision-making in a Cataract Surgery Clinic
… processes and elements of the practice’s choice architecture that either limit or support preoperative ocular surface disease management in cataract surgery patients. Finally, Phase Three presents theory-driven recommendations in the form of a practical and easy-to-read intervention guide. …
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Prioritizing Food Retailer Perspectives for Environmental Change in Food Stores to Encourage Healthy Dietary Purchases Among Low-Income Consumers in the United States
… key intermediaries who can use marketing-mix and choice-architecture (MMCA) strategies to encourage low-income consumers to purchase healthy products aligned with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), 2015-2020 is essential. This PhD research describes five investigations that explored the …
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Law as a regulator: steering waste management by steering itself through its relationship with the environment
… the context or, in Sunstein and Thaler’s words, choice architecture that nudges human beings towards certain behaviour. In turn, it is the choices made by human beings that influence organisational decision‐making. My thesis is demonstrated using the following minicase studies: (a) the …
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Building the Beloved Community: Designing Technologies for Neighborhood Safety
… design patterns, which align the users’ choice architecture with the principles of Transformative Justice. By leveraging nonviolent design patterns, designers can help build a world where it’s easier to love one another, easier to build a Beloved Community.
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Challenging the status quo: exploring the use of strategies from behavioral economics to shape children's menus in restaurants
… attributes and overall stated and derived menu choice by participant characteristics, beliefs, health concern, and food practices. 2) To investigate whether altering the choice architecture of children's meals by restructuring the menu using optimal defaults and vice-virtue bundles, will impact …
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Performative Parenting: Social Norms and Fathers' Use of Parental Leave Entitlements
… and forms of social constraint that form the choice architecture that shapes individual decisions. The research offers an original, granular account of the iterative process through which ‘father-friendly’ leave entitlements, combined with discursive changes, contribute to wider uptake of …
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The effect of digital nudging on the users of eCommerce websites in South Africa
… nudging techniques to change consumers' online choice environments and influence their purchase decisions. This thesis aims to understand the effect of digital nudging on the users of e-commerce websites in South Africa. Specifically, this study investigates the effect of timed promotions, …