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474. All You Need Is Nudge

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Don't Opt Out of Organ Donation

Many countries that have switched to what's called presumed consent explicitly describe their policy as soft presumed consent. Not being opted out doesn't mean that that person's organs are necessarily don because there's a whole other level to go through that most people just didn't think about. One major theme of nu follows directly from the foundational research by conman and tversky. We think we know what other people are thinking, but often we don't. This can lead us to assume that certain social norms are much stronger than they are.

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