Nudging and Manipulation

By T. Wilkinson. 2013

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences

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What Makes a Dark Pattern... Dark?: Design Attributes, Normative Considerations, and Measurement Methods (2021, background): “Scholars agree that to manipulate an individual is to subvert their decision-making and to deny them authorship over their decisions [17, 44, 51, 60, 61].”
From Libertarian Paternalism to Nudging—and Beyond (2015, background): “Wilkinson (2013) stated that a nudge is inconsistent with the nudgee’s autonomy if it is manipulative,7 and the target has not consented to it.”
Unresolved questions in nudging research: Putting the psychology back in nudging (2017, background): “Freedom of choice is one of the key principles in nudging interventions and has been discussed extensively (Bovens, 2009; Hansen & Jespersen, 2013; Sunstein, 2014; Wilkinson, 2013).”
Dark Patterns at Scale (2019, background): “hich are deviations from rational behavior justified by some “biased” line of reasoning [50]—in users they exploit to their advantage. We ground this taxonomy in the literature on online manipulation [33, 75, 81] and by studying the types of dark patterns highlighted in previous work [31, 47]. Our t”
Nudging and Boosting: Steering or Empowering Good Decisions (2017, background): “Indeed, some nudges may operate behind the chooser’s back and therefore appear manipulative (e.g., Conly, 2012; Wilkinson, 2013).”
Nudge Versus Boost: How Coherent are Policy and Theory? (2015, background): “Critics of nudge have pointed out that the easy-avoidance argument fails to addresses the approach’s lack of transparency (Bovens 2008; Hausman and Welch 2010; Grüne-Yanoff 2012; Wilkinson 2013).”