Consider the last time you signed up for a web service. It might have been a site to buy products (e.g., Amazon), monitor and pay your credit card (e.g., Chase), read subscription content (e.g., The ...

In my last post, I presented an overview of choice architecture and argued there may be a misalignment between the desires of the choice architect and those of the decision-maker. Given that choice ...

Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 140, No. 4, Special Issue on Ethics in Accounting and Finance (February 2017), pp. 743-753 (11 pages) This paper applies insights from behavioral economics and nudge ...

You're craving a late-night snack. So, you head to your kitchen to grab something before you go to bed. What will you choose? A lot of the time, it depends on what's most accessible. You’re more ...

I am reading a wonderful book. It's called "Nudge," by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, and it deals with the way seemingly small factors can have a disproportionately large influence on the ...

Researchers from Erasmus University, Columbia University, and University of Pennsylvania published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines how the design of online marketplaces affects ...

New research, led by the University of Portsmouth, could help decision makers make more effective choices when designing social housing initiatives. Using the concept of 'choice architecture' the ...

Hart, J., K. Yadav, S. Szymanski, A. Summer, A. Tannenbaum, J. Zlatev, D. Daniels, and S.D. Halpern. "Choice Architecture in Physician–patient Communication: A ...