American attitudes toward nudges

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 62-74

  Jung, Janice Y ^a   Mellers, Barbara A ^b  

^a FACEBOOK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Choice architecture; Dual systems; Framing; Individual dispositions; Libertarian paternalism; Nudges; Perceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956915847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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