in both developing and developed countries, health ministries closely examine use of so-called nudges to promote population health and welfare. cass sunstein and richard thaler, who developed the concept, define a nudge as “any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives. ...

We study heterogeneity in the responsiveness to choice architecture, focusing on the propensity of low-income versus high-income employees to opt out of the default contribution rate in 401(k) retirement savings plans. We develop a statistical model to distinguish between two underlying sources of heterogeneity: low-income employees may be more likely to remain at the default because it is simi...

The post-socialist industrial relations system has practically collapsed in Hungary as a consequence of the deep and long economic, political and ethical crisis following the credit crunch, which begun in Hungary in summer 2006. One may argue that this collapse was preceded by a protracted weakening and decomposition of the main actors, especially the trade unions. This article, however, argues...

Despite their best intentions, people struggle with the realities of privacy protection and will often sacrifice privacy for convenience in their online activities. Individuals show systematic, personality dependent differences in their privacy decision making, which makes it interesting for those who seek to design 'nudges' designed to manipulate privacy behaviors. We explore such effects in a...

‘Hypernudge’ describes a group of phenomena which occur at the intersection behavioural science and computer science, law. The term been increasingly used in latter field, though sparingly science. As such, ‘hypernudge’ remains largely absent from lexicon, inhibiting field participating within vital discussions surrounding use psychological insights with ubiquitous computing. In this article, I...