Behavioral Insights for Public Policy

Contextualizing our Science

Crystal C Hall author Ines Jurcevic author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:28th Apr '22

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Provides recommendations for generating equitable empirical and practical applications of behavioral insights to the field of public policy.

This Element describes ways in which behavioral insights have been successful and where they have fallen while examining unintended negative consequences of nudges and provides a more nuanced examination of their impacts on behavior change.There has been an increasing effort to integrate behavioral insights into public policy. These insights are often reliant on social psychological research and theory. However, in this relatively young field, policy interventions and behavioral insights are often built on laboratory-based psychological research with effects that can prove to be unstable in the 'real world'. In this Element, the author provides a brief history of how behavioral insights have been applied to complex policy problems. The author describes ways in which behavioral insights have been successful and where they have fallen short. In addition, the author examines unintended negative consequences of nudges and provides a more nuanced examination of their impacts on behavior change. Finally, the author concludes with a set of recommendations for generating more effective practical applications of psychology to the field of public policy.

ISBN: 9781009013918

Dimensions: 228mm x 153mm x 4mm

Weight: 110g

75 pages