AI, behavioural science, and consumer welfare

S Mills, S Costa, CR Sunstein - Journal of Consumer Policy, 2023 - Springer
This article discusses the opportunities and costs of AI in behavioural science, with particular
reference to consumer welfare. We argue that because of pattern detection capabilities …

It's time we put agency into Behavioural Public Policy

S Banerjee, T Grüne-Yanoff, P John… - Behavioural Public …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Promoting agency–people's ability to form intentions and to act on them freely–must become
a primary objective for Behavioural Public Policy (BPP). Contemporary BPPs do not directly …

Nudge+: putting citizens at the heart of behavioural public policy

S Banerjee, P John - Research Handbook on Nudges and Society, 2023 - elgaronline.com
The success of behavioural public policies (BPPs), occurring over the last 15 years or so,
presents scholars and policymakers with an opportunity to scale up the knowledge that has …

Nudge or not, university teachers have mixed feelings about online teaching

S Banerjee, B Jambrina-Canseco… - Humanities and Social …, 2023 - nature.com
We designed and administered an online survey experiment to 444 educators in a large
social sciences university in the United Kingdom to evaluate their perceptions on the …

Harnessing heterogeneity in behavioural research using computational social science

GA Veltri - Behavioural Public Policy, 2023 - cambridge.org
Similarly to other domains of the social sciences, behavioural science has grappled with a
crisis concerning the effect sizes of research findings. Different solutions have been …

Nudge and nudging in public policy

S Banerjee, P John - Encyclopedia of Public Policy, 2023 - Springer
A nudge refers to “any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people's behavior in a
predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic …

The Opportunities and Costs of AI in Behavioural Science

S Mills, S Costa, CR Sunstein - Available at SSRN 4490597, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
This article discusses the opportunities and costs of AI in behavioural science. We argue that
because of pattern detection capabilities, modern AI will be able to identify (1) new biases in …

The economics of cognitive institutions: mapping debates, looking ahead

D Frolov - Journal of Institutional Economics, 2024 - cambridge.org
In the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, there is a pronounced paradigm shift
associated with the transition from internalism to externalism. The externalist paradigm …

Unpacking the contextualities of behavioural public policy: a case study of the Peruvian Nudge unit MineduLAB

P Ñañez, M Decuypere, S Hartong - Journal of Social Policy, 2024 - cambridge.org
Governments around the world have increasingly adopted behavioural public policies, in
which behavioural insights units (often designated as 'Nudge units') play an increasingly …

The future of experimental design: Integrative, but is the sample diverse enough?

S Ghai, S Banerjee - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2024 - cambridge.org
Almaatouq et al. propose an “integrative approach” to increase the generalisability and
commensurability of experiments. Yet their metascientific approach has one glaring …