The increase in global temperatures requires substantial reductions the greenhouse emissions from consumer choices. authors use an experimental incentive-compatible online supermarket to analyze effect of a carbon-based choice architecture, which presents commodities customers high, medium, and low carbon footprint groups, reducing footprints grocery baskets. relate this architecture two other ...

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. ...

Abstract Criticisms of nudging suggest that nudges infringe on decision makers’ autonomy. Yet, little empirical research has explored whether people who are subjected to agree. In three between-group experiments ( N = 2083), we subject participants contrasting choice architectures and measure experiences autonomy, choice-satisfaction, perceived threat freedom choice, objection the architecture....

The training of artificial neural networks to solve a particular problem usually affects only the weight space of the network. In contrast, the network architecture has to be predefined by the user. For this pretraining choice of network architecture profound skill and experience may be required on the part of the user — an improperly predefined architecture easily renders a learning problem in...

Female mate choice is one mechanism of sexual selection and, provided there is adequate genetic variation in the male traits that are the target of this selection, they will evolve via female choice. Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) are important in Drosophila mate choice, but relatively little is known about the underlying genetic architecture of CHC profiles in Drosophila simulans. Here, we used...