Decisional enhancement and autonomy: Public attitudes towards overt and covert nudges

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 202-213

  Felsen, Gidon ^a   Castelo, Noah ^b,c   Reiner, Peter B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavioral economics and policy; Contrastive vignettes; Decision aids

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878428504     PISSN: 19302975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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