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Nudging with care: The risks and benefits of social information

Norms and nudges are both popular types of interventions. Recent years have seen the rise of "norm-nudges" - nudges whose mechanism of action relies on social norms, eliciting or changing social expectations. Norm-nudges can be powerful interventions, but they can easily fail to be effective and can even backfire unless they are designed with care. We highlight important considerations when designing norm-nudges and discuss a general model of social behavior based on expectations and conditional preferences. We present the results of several experiments where norm-nudging can backfire, and ways to avoid these negative outcomes.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CeDEx Discussion Paper Series ; No. 2019-02

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economic Methodology
Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
Thema
Norm-Nudges
Nudge
Social Information
Social Norms

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
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Bicchieri, Cristina
Dimant, Eugen
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The University of Nottingham, Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx)
(wo)
Nottingham
(wann)
2019

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bicchieri, Cristina
  • Dimant, Eugen
  • The University of Nottingham, Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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