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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Nudge"”.
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PiXi: an approach to nudge secure password creation
… information (PiXi), a novel approach to nudge users towards creating secure passwords. PiXi is the first of its kind that employs a password creation nudge to support users in the task of generating a unique secure password themselves. PiXi prompts users to explore unusual information …
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Cafe nudge project: choice architecture for eating and nudging healthy behaviors
The objective of the Cafe Nudge Project was to assess the cafeteria environment and the flow of students through the lunch-line to determine characteristics that could be enhanced to encourage healthy food choices in three Appalachian high schools. The Center for Behavioral Economics and Child …
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Driving change : how workplace benefits can nudge solo car commuters toward sustainable modes
… MIT car commuters, investigating how behavioral 'nudges' can further encourage reductions in driving. While no statistically significant reductions in parking were observed during the experiment, the combination of token monetary rewards and informational nudges appeared most effective at shifting …
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All it takes is a nudge: pushing environmental federalism to tackle the massive non-point source pollution problem
… setting process provides new mediums in which to nudge, but when programs and policies intended to nudge turn into a shove, the judiciary plays an important role in preserving the balance. Contrasting approaches in each watershed provide insight to crafting policies that shift towards balanced and …
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El efecto de un empujón (nudge) de pertenencia social en estudiantes de primer año de Economía de la Universidad de Costa Rica
Uno de los problemas más graves que enfrentan las universidades cada año es el alto porcentaje de estudiantes de nuevo ingreso que tienen dificultades para afrontar la transición y adaptarse al nuevo entorno formativo. De hecho, es considerable la cantidad de estudiantes que, al iniciar sus …
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Nudging Retail Investors towards Sustainable and Responsible Mutual Funds: A Study of Financial Advisors and Retail Investors in Hong Kong
… in their actions because of cognitive biases. Nudge theory of behavioural economics further suggested that we can steer people to better decision-making without abridging their freedom of choice. The prevalence of nudge theory prompted some researchers to explore the application to SRI and …
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Η εφαρμογή των τεχνικών Nudge στην ορθολογιστική χρήση των μεταγγίσεων στην ιατρική: Βελτιστοποίηση αποφάσεων και επίδραση στις ιατρικές πρακτικές. Μια συμπεριφορική προσέγγιση σε νοσοκομειακό περιβάλλον
… των τεχνικών συμπεριφορικής παρότρυνσης (nudge), στην βελτίωση της διαδικασίας λήψης αποφάσεων που σχετίζονται με τις μεταγγίσεις αίματος. Εστιάζει στο πώς αυτές οι τεχνικές μπορούν να προωθήσουν την ορθολογική χρήση των μεταγγίσεων σε νοσοκομειακά περιβάλλοντα, βελτιώνοντας ταυτόχρονα τις …
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The Interactive Effect of Policies and Preferences on Decision Making
… field experiment involving a health intervention nudge and explores its impact on class engagement and education outcomes of students. In addition, we look at the impact of the nudge on vaccination uptake among students. We find improved class engagement as well as improvement in test scores for …
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Investigating the Effects of Nudges for Facilitating the Use of Trigger Warnings and Content Warnings
… determine if poster-side interventions such as a nudge algorithm to add warnings to sensitive posts would increase social media users' knowledge and understanding of how and when to add trigger and content warnings. To investigate the effectiveness of a nudge algorithm, we designed the TWIST …
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Nudging the public: Relevance, antecedents and the level of public support for behaviorally informed policies
… végezni a közpolitikák és kifejezetten a nudge elfogadottsága terén. Az emberek jobb döntések felé terelése olyan cél, amelyet érdemes követni, és ezt etikusan és megbízhatóan megtenni pedig szép feladat. Munkámra a globális világjárvány is hatással volt, és a megoldáshoz való hozzájárulás …
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ESSAYS ON NUDGING CUSTOMERS’ BEHAVIORS: EVIDENCE FROM ONLINE GROCERY SHOPPING AND CROWDFUNDING
… and field experiments to understand and nudge customers’ behaviors in two types of online engagement platforms. The first one is customers’ purchase behaviors in an online grocery store and the other is customer’ contribution behaviors in a reward-based crowdfunding platform. In both …
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A hybrid global surrogate modeling software for nuclear reactor cross section estimation
… number and type of runtime simulation inputs. NUDGE (NUclear Database GEneration software) is an implementation of this methodology. The methodology has two main steps where new data is added to databases. First is exploration, where inputs to the database are selected to be as uniformly …
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Nudging, transparency and rationality: An experimental investigation
… (LP) intervention, popularly known as a nudge, can outperform an autonomy-enhancing paternalist intervention (AEP). I introduce the term Marginal Benefit of Manipulation, MBoM, defined as the difference in treatment effect between an LP and AEP intervention. I find that the AEP …
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Experimental Manipulation of Intervention Timing to Improve Adolescents’ Receptivity to Physical Activity
… non-temporally tailored digital intervention (NUDGE intervention; n=10). All participants wore an accelerometer to measure their physical activity. Participants completed questionnaires about their satisfaction with the TAGS intervention, perceptions regarding the usability of the TAGS …
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Persuasive technology in tourism online experiences and implications on tourist buying behaviour
… (UXs) act as persuasive technology that can nudge users toward making behaviour change. This makes online UX integral to marketing. The tourism industry relies on UX to attract potential customers. Made up of 80% SMEs, the competition is high, hence the SMEs must deliver robust UXs that …
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The effect of digital nudging on the users of eCommerce websites in South Africa
… to measure the customer responses between the nudge variants. Online experiments were conducted with the e-commerce clothing store “Superbalist” which is the second most popular e-commerce site in South Africa generating 220 million in annual revenue. This study employed a one-way between - …
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The influences of the just-in-time social cloud on real world decisions
… we can utilize the just-in-time social cloud to nudge people towards decisions that have long term benefits for health and finances, while counterbalancing the forces of the marketers that trigger our impulses towards immediate temptations that we may regret later. This work presents an empirical …
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Consumer attitudes toward and preferences for local foods in Northern Ireland: Experimental and survey evidence
… and revealed preferences and the possibility to nudge behaviour through persuasive communication in the context of local foods. Evidence is based on both survey and experimental data. It contains three main chapters. In Chapter 2, I critically review the literature and explore how local food …
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Multifaith Families and their Narratives within Society
<p>The goal of this project is to nudge the conversation about interfaith families in a direction that examines the family post–interfaith dialogue. The term multifaith better represents this new aim because it encompasses all interactions and does not limit the family to the constraints of the …
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