Nudging and Boosting: Steering or Empowering Good Decisions

By Ralph Hertwig, Till Grüne-Yanoff. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2017

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A systematic review of algorithm aversion in augmented decision making (2019, background): “…could plausibly be improved with a program of transparent nudges (Bruns, Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Klement, Jonsson, & Rahali, 2018; Thaler & Sunstein, 2008) and boosts (Hertwig & Grüne-Yanoff, 2017) that remedy human decision makers' motivational deficiencies without impinging on their autonomy.”
The ethics of nudging: An overview (2020, background): “In some cases, we can even try to “boost” their cognitive capacities instead of merely taking them as given (Barton & Grüne-Yanoff, 2015; Hertwig & Grüne-Yanoff, 2017).”
The Science of Wisdom in a Polarized World: Knowns and Unknowns (2020, background): “Further work is also needed to evaluate the relative success of such interventions compared to conscious boosts (Hertwig & Gr€une-Yanoff, 2017), or deliberate training programs oriented toward shifting underlying meta-cognitive dispositions.”
Moving beyond the obsession with nudging individual behaviour: Towards a broader understanding of Behavioural Public Policy (2020, background): “While nudges may be deployed to facilitate policy implementation, other behavioural approaches such as ‘budges’ (Oliver, 2015) and ‘boosts’ (Hertwig and Grüne-Yanoff, 2017) could play a vital role too at this particular stage of the policy process.”