Nudge theory, the idea that you can softly finesse a person's decision making has been popular for over a decade now. But there are new questions about just how effective these nudges really are. A recent study and some even more recent criticism of that study suggest we might not actually know how effective it is when it comes to influencing people's decision making.
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ousted from Congress. We attend her election-night defeat. The science behind behavioural nudges seems to be on increasingly
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