New paper on transparency of nudgesHendrik Bruns and co-authors have published a paper in the Journal of Economic Psychology on whether the impact of nudges depends on their transparency

20 March 2018

Together with colleagues from other Universities, Hendrik Bruns, PhD student at the International Max-Planck Research School and the Chair of Environmental Economics, published a paper on the impact of transparent behavioral interventions (nudges) on climate protection in the Journal of Economic Psychology. Experimental results show that nudges are effective even when people are aware of their potential behavioral influence, and/or their purpose. Additionally, psychological reactance does not appear to predict how people respond to transparent nudges.

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