Communicating the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of government policies and their impact on public support: a systematic review with meta-analysis

JP Reynolds, K Stautz, M Pilling… - Royal Society …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Low public support for government interventions in health, environment and other policy
domains can be a barrier to implementation. Communicating evidence of policy …

Towards environmentally sustainable human behaviour: targeting non-conscious and conscious processes for effective and acceptable policies

TM Marteau - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Meeting climate change targets to limit global warming to 2° C requires rapid and large
reductions in demand for products that most contribute to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions …

American attitudes toward nudges

JY Jung, BA Mellers - Judgment and Decision making, 2016 - cambridge.org
To successfully select and implement nudges, policy makers need a psychological
understanding of who opposes nudges, how they are perceived, and when alternative …

When and why do people accept public-policy interventions? An integrative public-policy-acceptance framework

S Grelle, W Hofmann - Perspectives on Psychological …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The successful introduction of public policies to prompt behavior change hinges on the
degree to which citizens endorse the proposed policies. Although there is a large body of …

“Better off, as judged by themselves”: a comment on evaluating nudges

CR Sunstein - International Review of Economics, 2018 - Springer
Many nudges are designed to make people better off, as judged by themselves. This
criterion, meant to ensure that nudges will increase people's welfare, contains some …

Effectiveness or consumer acceptance? Tradeoffs in selecting healthy eating nudges

R Cadario, P Chandon - Food policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Governments and companies that want to promote healthier eating must consider both the
effectiveness and the acceptance of the 'nudges' given to consumers. Our review of the …

[HTML][HTML] Communicating quantitative evidence of policy effectiveness and support for the policy: Three experimental studies

JP Reynolds, M Pilling, TM Marteau - Social Science & Medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Increasing the prices of products that harm health is an effective intervention for changing
behaviour to improve health but public support for such interventions is generally low. The …

Public support for 'soft'versus 'hard'public policies: Review of the evidence

S Banerjee, M Savani, G Shreedhar - Journal of Behavioral Public …, 2021 - journal-bpa.org
This article reviews the literature on public support for 'soft'versus 'hard'policy instruments for
behaviour change, and the factors that drive such preferences. Soft policies typically include …

'Better off, as judged by themselves': do people support nudges as a method to change their own behavior?

N Gold, Y Lin, R Ashcroft, M Osman - Behavioural Public Policy, 2023 - cambridge.org
In this study, we investigated how people evaluate behavioral interventions (BIs) that are
targeted at themselves, aiming to promote their own health and wellbeing. We compared the …

The role of framing and effort in green nudging acceptance

S Grelle, S Kuhn, H Fuhrmann-Riebel… - Behavioural Public …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Whether nudges succeed in promoting pro-environmental behavior strongly depends on
their public acceptance. Prior literature shows that the framing of nudges, ie, whether they …