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2 claims from 2 papers

1. Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics

   The effectiveness of nudging: A meta-analysis of choice architecture interventions across behavioral domains

   Mertens, Herberz, Hahnel and Brosch · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2021

   The paper is a meta-analysis of over a decade of research on choice architecture interventions, aiming to assess their overall effectiveness and the conditions under which they change behaviour.

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   1. UncheckedA quantitative review of over a decade of studies reports that choice architecture interventions promote behaviour change across key domains, populations and locations.“Here we quantitatively review over a decade of research, showing that choice architecture interventions successfully promote behavior change across key behavioral domains, populations, and locations.”

2. Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics

   Generic properties of a computational task predict human effort and performance

   Franco, Yadav, Bossaerts and Murawski · Journal of Mathematical Psychology · 2021

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   1. UncheckedParticipants spent longer on task instances with higher TCC and IC, yet made lower-quality decisions on those same instances.“We find that participants spent more time on instances with higher TCC and IC, but that decision quality was lower in those instances.”