As noted at LiveScience, the ability to contribute to Haitian relief via text messaging is blowing the doors off previous donations: Text-message donations, also called SMS donations, are becoming increasing[ly] popular with...
Category - Social norms
I know it’s rude to bring this up during the holidays, but it’s not that dress or those pants that make our collective rumps look big. We all know we’ve gotten fatter, and it’s happened remarkably...
- Active Choice
- Adaptive vs. Rational
- Bias to the present
- Happiness
- Opt Out
- Self Control
- Simplify Wisely
- Social norms
Thanksgiving Tips from the Behavioral Sciences
In a Washington Post article, an interview with Dan Ariely led to the following tips for dealing with the potential food stuffage that seems to come along with Thanksgiving: Use chopsticks (or other difficult to handle...
The Nudge blog updates readers on a pilot project that seeks to reduce the carbon footprint in the United Kingdom: The residents are asked to make pledges in a face-to-face conversation with one of the canvassers who have been...
A New York Times piece on the rise of smart phones offers an interesting take on how social norms drive use of technologies via expectations: “The social norm is that you should respond [to e-mail] within a couple of hours...
John Edgell, guest columnist at CQ Politics, reviews the importance of behavioral economics in the Obama White House, especially as it applies to healthcare reform: What perhaps matters more [than the daunting problems in the...
