When in doubt, follow the crowd? Responsiveness to social proof nudges in the absence of clear preferences

TAG Venema, FM Kroese, JS Benjamins… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Nudges have gained popularity as a behavioral change tool that aims to facilitate the
selection of the sensible choice option by altering the way choice options are presented …

Nudgeability: Mapping conditions of susceptibility to nudge influence

D De Ridder, F Kroese… - … on Psychological Science, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Nudges are behavioral interventions to subtly steer citizens' choices toward “desirable”
options. An important topic of debate concerns the legitimacy of nudging as a policy …

And how would that make you feel? How people expect nudges to influence their sense of autonomy

J Wachner, MA Adriaanse, DTD De Ridder - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Objective While nudges are increasingly utilized in public policy settings, their potential
threat to autonomous choice is the topic of heated debate. Regardless of the actual effects of …

Do nudges make use of automatic processing? Unraveling the effects of a default nudge under type 1 and type 2 processing

LC Van Gestel, MA Adriaanse… - … Results in Social …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Nudges have become increasingly popular among policymakers as a tool to stimulate
desirable behavior for individuals or society. One of the most prevailing assumptions of …

Experiencing default nudges: autonomy, manipulation, and choice-satisfaction as judged by people themselves

P Michaelsen, LO Johansson… - Behavioural Public …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Criticisms of nudging suggest that nudges infringe on decision makers' autonomy. Yet, little
empirical research has explored whether people who are subjected to nudges agree. In …

Behavioral insights all over the world? Public attitudes toward nudging in a multi-country study

CR Sunstein, LA Reisch, J Rauber - Public Attitudes Toward …, 2017 - papers.ssrn.com
Nudges are choice-preserving interventions that steer people's behaviour in specific
directions while allowing people to go their own way. Some nudges have been …

Can nudges be transparent and yet effective?

H Bruns, E Kantorowicz-Reznichenko… - Journal of Economic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Nudges receive growing attention as an effective concept to alter people's decisions without
significantly changing economic incentives or limiting options. However, being often very …

The influence of nudge transparency on the experience of autonomy

J Wachner, M Adriaanse… - Comprehensive Results in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
While nudges have been shown to be effective and are already being implemented, there is
still a debate on the ethics of nudging. This debate specifically refers to the potential of …

Who can be nudged? Examining nudging effectiveness in the context of need for cognition and need for uniqueness

M Ingendahl, D Hummel, A Maedche… - Journal of Consumer …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the last decade, there has been a growing research focus on the subtle modifications of
choice architecture that have strong effects on consumer behavior and are subsumed under …

Nudging with care: The risks and benefits of social information

C Bicchieri, E Dimant - Public choice, 2022 - Springer
Nudges are 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 …