Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response
- J. V. Bavel, Katherine Baicker, Robb Willer
- Psychology, MedicineNature Human Behaviour
- 24 March 2020
Evidence from a selection of research topics relevant to pandemics is discussed, including work on navigating threats, social and cultural influences on behaviour, science communication, moral decision-making, leadership, and stress and coping.
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
- R. Thaler, C. Sunstein
- Political Science
- 8 April 2008
A groundbreaking discussion of how we can apply the new science of choice architecture to nudge people toward decisions that will improve their lives by making them healthier, wealthier, and more…
The Law of Group Polarization
- C. Sunstein
- Law
- 1 December 1999
In a striking empirical regularity, deliberation tends to move groups, and the individuals who compose them, toward a more extreme point in the direction indicated by their own predeliberation…
Republic.com 2.0
- C. Sunstein
- Political Science
- 2007
What happens to democracy and free speech if people use the Internet to create echo chambers--to listen and speak only to the like-minded? What is the democratic benefit of the Internet's unlimited…
The science of fake news
- D. Lazer, M. Baum, J. Zittrain
- Computer ScienceScience
- 9 March 2018
Social and computer science research regarding belief in fake news and the mechanisms by which it spreads is discussed, focusing on unanswered scientific questions raised by the proliferation of its most recent, politically oriented incarnation.
Libertarian Paternalism is Not an Oxymoron
- C. Sunstein, R. Thaler
- Economics
- 9 May 2003
The idea of libertarian paternalism might seem to be an oxymoron, but it is both possible and legitimate for private and public institutions to affect behavior while also respecting freedom of…
Why Nudge?: The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism
- C. Sunstein
- Political Science
- 25 March 2014
The bestselling author of Simpler offers a powerful, provocative, and convincing argument for protecting people from their own mistakes Based on a series of pathbreaking lectures given at Yale…
Republic.com
- C. Sunstein
- Law
- 18 February 2001
From the Publisher:
See only what you want to see, hear only what you want to hear; read only what you want to read. In cyberspace, we already have the ability to filter out everything but what we…
Nudging: A Very Short Guide
- C. Sunstein
- PsychologyHow Change Happens
- 22 September 2014
This brief essay offers a general introduction to the idea of nudging, along with a list of 10 of the most important “nudges.” It also provides a short discussion of the question whether to create…
Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge
- C. Sunstein
- Economics
- 2006
This book explores the human potential to pool widely dispersed information, and to use that knowledge to improve both our institutions and our lives. Various methods for aggregating information are…
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