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Choice Architecture in Occupational Choices
http://repec.business.uzh.ch/RePEc/iso/leadinghouse/0255_lhwpaper.pdf
This study uses a Swiss job board to analyze how rank order and design influence high-stakes occupational choices. Higher rankings increased applications, especially for high-paying and gender-congruent occupations. Users interpreted rank to justify choices aligning with identity, providing field evidence for motivated reasoning. An interactive, visually enriched interface redesign boosted applications and watch list usage. Results show that reducing cognitive load expands the variety of options individuals consider and remember.
#choicearchitecture #motivatedreasoning #laborEconomics #jobtech #ExperimentalEcon
#BoundedRationality

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Zoomers of the Sunshine Coast 🇨🇦Jan 6

🎧 Listen: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/episodes/18454702

📖 Read: https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/the-invisible-hand-thats-actually

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This is Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 Deep, gentle conversations about things that matter.

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#BehavioralEconomics #ChoiceArchitecture #NudgeTheory #CognitivePsychology #DecisionScience #PublicPolicy #BehavioralInsights #SystemsThinking #LibertarianPaternalism #CassSunstein

👉 The Invisible Hand That's Actually Pushing You - Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦‬

📖 Read: We like to think we’re in control. That’s the comfortable fiction we tell ourselves every morning when we’re standing in front of the open refrigerator, weighing whether to grab the leftover pizza or the sad container of spinach that’...

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Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich Oct 2, 2025

The Great Power Shift: How Intelligent Choice Architectures Rewrite Decision Rights
https://archive.ph/7vnir

The increasing use of AI-powered "intelligent choice architectures" (ICAs) in organizations is transforming how #decisionRights, #power dynamics, and decision-making practices are allocated and structured.

As ICAs become more sophisticated, there are three key shifts occurring: power flows to the human and machine architects of these choice environments, network effects amplify the decision intelligence of ICAs, and the real-time optimization capabilities of ICAs redefine authority and oversight.

To address the risks of the "learning-authority dilemma" where ICAs exceed their granted decision rights, organizations need to establish dynamic governance frameworks that systematically evaluate ICA capabilities and intentionally expand their authority while maintaining oversight.

Leaders must become accountable not just for individual decisions, but for the quality of the ICA systems they create.

The article highlights the need to proactively address decision rights, power structures, and #decisionMaking practices as #AI driven #choiceArchitecture become more prominent in enterprises.

#BoundedRationality #AgenticAI
#AIGovernance #AiEthics #accountability

Uwe Kaspers Aug 9, 2024

Soll ich jetzt jedem Autofahrer erklären, warum man beim Warten an der Fähre den Motor abstellen sollte, oder erhöhen wir einfach die Minaralölsteuer?
#ChoiceArchitecture

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich Mar 27, 2024

Failures in #Kindness
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GLpFovxZdwXYwmbkJ/failures-in-kindness
"…doing the other person a favor by being open & flexible
…this is computationally unkind: it offloads all the effort of coming up with ideas & making decisions to the other person. So while it is kind on one level (respecting their object level preferences), it's unkind on another (effort, and respecting their possible meta level preferences about the planning process)."
#BoundedRationality #ComputationalKindness
#choiceArchitecture
#decisionMaking

Failures in Kindness — LessWrong

There's a particular kind of widespread human behavior that is kind on the surface, but upon closer inspection reveals quite the opposite. This post…

Craig Joseph, MD Jan 13, 2024

Fewer sugary drinks are sold when a #SodaTax is applied by the city or state. Does this affect a population's health? Difficult to prove, but what is clear that #ChoiceArchitecture works as projected. Still ... I call it #pop, not soda. #facts https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2024/01/10/soda-taxes

Do soda taxes work? Here's what a new study found.

According to a new study published in JAMA Health Forum, sales of sugary drinks declined significantly after cities implemented soda taxes — a change that the researchers say could have substantial public health benefits.

Craig Joseph, MD Dec 27, 2023

This sort of research is my favorite! What is the effect of chair placement on physicians’ behavior and patients’ satisfaction? #ChairNudge #ChoiceArchitecture #HumanCenteredDesign https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023-076309

Effect of chair placement on physicians’ behavior and patients’ satisfaction: randomized deception trial

Objective To evaluate the effect of chair placement on length of time physicians sit during a bedside consultation and patients’ satisfaction. Design Single center, double blind, randomized controlled deception trial. Setting County hospital in Texas, USA. Participants 51 hospitalist physicians providing direct care services, and 125 observed encounters of patients who could answer four orientation questions correctly before study entry, April 2022 to February 2023. Intervention Each patient encounter was randomized to either chair placement (≤3 feet (0.9 m) of patient’s bedside and facing the bed) or usual chair location (control). Main outcome measures The primary outcome was the binary decision of the physician to sit or not sit at any point during a patient encounter. Secondary outcomes included patient satisfaction, as assessed with the Tool to Assess Inpatient Satisfaction with Care from Hospitalists (TAISCH) and the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) surveys, time in the room, and both physicians’ and patients’ perception of time in the room. Results 125 patient encounters were randomized (60 to chair placement and 65 to control). 38 of the 60 physicians in the chair placement group sat during the patient encounter compared with five of the 65 physicians in the control group (odds ratio 20.7, 95% confidence interval 7.2 to 59.4; P<0.001). The absolute risk difference between the intervention and control groups was 0.55 (95% confidence interval 0.42 to 0.69). Overall, 1.8 chairs needed to be placed for a physician to sit. Intervention was associated with 3.9% greater TAISCH scores (effect estimate 3.9, 95% confidence interval 0.9 to 7.0; P=0.01) and 5.1 greater odds of complete scores on HCAHPS (95% confidence interval 1.06 to 24.9, P=0.04). Chair placement was not associated with time spent in the room (10.6 minutes v control 10.6 minutes) nor perception of time in the room for physicians (9.4 minutes v 9.8 minutes) or patients (13.1 minutes v 13.5 minutes). Conclusion Chair placement is a simple, no cost, low tech intervention that increases a physician’s likelihood of sitting during a bedside consultation and resulted in higher patients’ scores for both satisfaction and communication. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov [NCT05250778][1]. No additional data available. [1]: /lookup/external-ref?link_type=CLINTRIALGOV&access_num=NCT05250778&atom=%2Fbmj%2F383%2Fbmj-2023-076309.atom

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Humboldt-Stiftung Nov 8, 2023

More #sustainability through #ChoiceArchitecture? 🌿

In an interactive game at the #BerlinScienceWeek, Evelyn de Oliveira Araripe and Christopher Schrader from the #HumboldtResidencyProgramme and their audience took on roles to make decisions on sustainable consumer behavior. #SciComm

Matthew Broberg Jul 25, 2023

I know I could be stepping into a well-known problem: maturity models that imply the need to get to the "final level" rather than be differing levels of investment (and it's okay to not "move on").

Can anyone remind me of avoiding that?

#SystemsThinking #ChoiceArchitecture #Innersource

Uwe Kaspers Jul 20, 2023

Wenn Trägheit und Dummheit zu einer kommunalen Satzung "gerinnt" ...
Ich habe jetzt dem Druck der Gemeinderverwaltung Wachtberg bei Bonn nachgegeben und bin der Einleitungspflicht von Regenwasser in den Kanal gefolgt. Das Wasser versickert jetzt nicht mehr auf einer Wiese, sondern wird sofort abgeführt.
Man sagte mir, ich brauche ein Bodengutachten, das ein Vielfacher der Einleitungsgebühr kostet.
#ChoiceArchitecture #nudging #FalscherDefault