Nudge plus: incorporating reflection into behavioral public policy

Banerjee, Sanchayan ORCID: 0000-0002-0176-0429 and John, Peter (2024) Nudge plus: incorporating reflection into behavioral public policy. Behavioural Public Policy, 8 (1). 69 - 84. ISSN 2398-063X

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Abstract

Nudge plus is a modification of the toolkit of behavioral public policy. It incorporates an element of reflection – the plus – into the delivery of a nudge, either blended in or made proximate. Nudge plus builds on recent work combining heuristics and deliberation. It may be used to design prosocial interventions that help preserve the autonomy of the agent. The argument turns on seminal work on dual systems, which presents a subtler relationship between fast and slow thinking than commonly assumed in the classic literature in behavioral public policy. We review classic and recent work on dual processes to show that a hybrid is more plausible than the default-interventionist or parallel-competitive framework. We define nudge plus, set out what reflection could entail, provide examples, outline causal mechanisms, and draw testable implications.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioura...
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Geography & Environment
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology J Political Science > JC Political theory
Date Deposited:	24 Jun 2024 14:48
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 10:09
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/123963

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