Decisional enhancement and autonomy: public attitudes towards overt and covert nudges

Ubiquitous cognitive biases hinder optimal decision making. Recent calls to assist decision makers in mitigating these biases---via interventions commonly called ``nudges''---have been criticized as infringing upon individual autonomy. We tested the hypothesis that such ``decisional enhanc...

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Main Authors: Gidon Felsen, Noah Castelo, Peter B. Reiner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2013-05-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/12/12823/jdm12823.pdf