Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/237946152200800103
P. Newall, Lukasz Walasek, Elliot A. Ludvig, M. Rockloff
Legal gambling is a large industry in many countries. One way some governments try to protect people from losing more than they can afford is by requiring warning labels on gambling machines and their online equivalents. Prominent labels that make the odds of winning clear serve as nudges: They promote a beneficial behavior (such as deciding that the risk of losing money is too high) without interfering with choice (such as by restricting the availability of gambling). However, if gambling operators use labels that are difficult to understand, find, or read, those messages instead hamper decision-making and thus become sludge. In this article, we report on new research into whether gambling labels in the world's largest regulated online gambling market (the United Kingdom) are more consistent with nudge or sludge. We found that gambling operators overwhelmingly used sludge strategies when posting required gambling warning labels: For instance, they framed the message using a confusing format, applied a small font size to the text, and placed the warning on obscure help screens. We therefore propose that public policy officials throughout the world establish requirements for the wording and presentation of gambling warning labels to ensure that gamblers are well-informed about the odds they face.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/237946152200800107
Erin Frey, Gabrielle S. Adams, E. Bruno, J. Detert
Employee misbehavior can be defined as transgressions that go beyond unintentional mistakes but do not rise to the level of criminal offenses. Managers are often given substantial discretion over how to handle such behavior, but they may be unsure about what their response should be or unaware of the extent to which others will care about their response. We offer a framework to help managers respond to misbehavior, particularly when firing the offender is not an option. We identify types of formal and informal responses that not only deter future offenses but also help to restore perceptions of justice within the organization. We also provide guidance on how managers should select and communicate these responses to other employees. Finally, we highlight two supplementary actions that managers can consider to restore perceptions of justice: victim restitution (that is, providing compensation to or otherwise helping to assuage the distress of the wronged party) and offender reintegration (that is, helping the wrongdoer get back to work within the organization).
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David A. Comerford, Mirko Moro, Rodolfo Sejas-Portillo, Till Stowasser
Retrofitting—replacing obsolete home infrastructure with more energy-efficient substitutes—will be essential to reducing energy use and carbon emissions in the future. Yet European and American households have proved reluctant to undertake these changes. Evidence has shown that a home energy audit can motivate people to retrofit their homes. In this article, we show that including the EU energy label—which displays the property's energy-efficiency rating—in energy audit reports is a simple way to enhance the audit's effectiveness: When energy labels are required as part of the process of selling a property, home sellers become motivated to retrofit if doing so boosts their property into a higher efficiency category on the label. Drawing on insights from the behavioral science literature, we offer suggestions for how policymakers can leverage this motivation to expand household investments in retrofitting. Although our proposals focus on retrofitting, some of them could also encourage other actions that would reduce energy consumption.
{"title":"Leveraging the Motivational Effects of Labels: Lessons from Retrofitting","authors":"David A. Comerford, Mirko Moro, Rodolfo Sejas-Portillo, Till Stowasser","doi":"10.1353/bsp.2021.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bsp.2021.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Retrofitting—replacing obsolete home infrastructure with more energy-efficient substitutes—will be essential to reducing energy use and carbon emissions in the future. Yet European and American households have proved reluctant to undertake these changes. Evidence has shown that a home energy audit can motivate people to retrofit their homes. In this article, we show that including the EU energy label—which displays the property's energy-efficiency rating—in energy audit reports is a simple way to enhance the audit's effectiveness: When energy labels are required as part of the process of selling a property, home sellers become motivated to retrofit if doing so boosts their property into a higher efficiency category on the label. Drawing on insights from the behavioral science literature, we offer suggestions for how policymakers can leverage this motivation to expand household investments in retrofitting. Although our proposals focus on retrofitting, some of them could also encourage other actions that would reduce energy consumption.","PeriodicalId":36971,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Science and Policy","volume":"7 1","pages":"17 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41924226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/237946152100700207
A. Mazar, Geoff Tomaino, Z. Carmon, Wendy Wood
Public awareness and concern about climate and environmental issues have grown dramatically in the United States and around the world. Yet this shift in attitudes has not been accompanied by similar increases in eco-friendly behaviors. We propose that this attitude-behavior gap is partly driven by the difficulty of changing unsustainable habits. Governments and businesses can reduce this gap through interventions that draw on insights from research into the psychology of habits and behavioral economics. First, they can reduce or add friction, making it easier for people to engage in eco-friendly actions and making it harder to continue environmentally damaging practices. Second, they can set up action cues— prompts that trigger pro-environment actions—and deliver these cues where and when they will have the biggest impact. Finally, they can provide psychologically informed incentives and disincentives that steer people toward environmentally beneficial actions. We also describe how even initially unpopular policies can become accepted through habitual repetition. In these ways, habit psychology represents a promising addition to the policymaker's toolbox.
{"title":"Habits to save Our Habitat: Using the Psychology of Habits to Promote Sustainability","authors":"A. Mazar, Geoff Tomaino, Z. Carmon, Wendy Wood","doi":"10.1177/237946152100700207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/237946152100700207","url":null,"abstract":"Public awareness and concern about climate and environmental issues have grown dramatically in the United States and around the world. Yet this shift in attitudes has not been accompanied by similar increases in eco-friendly behaviors. We propose that this attitude-behavior gap is partly driven by the difficulty of changing unsustainable habits. Governments and businesses can reduce this gap through interventions that draw on insights from research into the psychology of habits and behavioral economics. First, they can reduce or add friction, making it easier for people to engage in eco-friendly actions and making it harder to continue environmentally damaging practices. Second, they can set up action cues— prompts that trigger pro-environment actions—and deliver these cues where and when they will have the biggest impact. Finally, they can provide psychologically informed incentives and disincentives that steer people toward environmentally beneficial actions. We also describe how even initially unpopular policies can become accepted through habitual repetition. In these ways, habit psychology represents a promising addition to the policymaker's toolbox.","PeriodicalId":36971,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Science and Policy","volume":"7 1","pages":"75 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46912418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kate Heller, Michael Berger, Antonius Gagern, Abdurakhim Rakhimov, John Thomas, Erik Thulin
Policymakers have a crucial role to play in averting climate catastrophe. Policies that rely on behavioral science principles to encourage individuals to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases can be an effective complement to broader top-down policies, such as charging for carbon emissions—provided that the behavior-based policies focus on actions with the highest potential to reduce emissions. We conducted an analysis to identify behaviors that have the greatest practical potential to reduce emissions in the United States and modeled the effects of their uptake. Our analysis identified six behaviors to prioritize: If adopted by 5%–10% of the U.S. population, these actions can collectively lower current national emissions by 464 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year, or 7% overall annually. We identify behavioral mechanisms that can inform policy design for promoting each of these behaviors.
{"title":"Six Behaviors Policymakers Should Promote to Mitigate Climate Change","authors":"Kate Heller, Michael Berger, Antonius Gagern, Abdurakhim Rakhimov, John Thomas, Erik Thulin","doi":"10.1353/bsp.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bsp.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Policymakers have a crucial role to play in averting climate catastrophe. Policies that rely on behavioral science principles to encourage individuals to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases can be an effective complement to broader top-down policies, such as charging for carbon emissions—provided that the behavior-based policies focus on actions with the highest potential to reduce emissions. We conducted an analysis to identify behaviors that have the greatest practical potential to reduce emissions in the United States and modeled the effects of their uptake. Our analysis identified six behaviors to prioritize: If adopted by 5%–10% of the U.S. population, these actions can collectively lower current national emissions by 464 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year, or 7% overall annually. We identify behavioral mechanisms that can inform policy design for promoting each of these behaviors.","PeriodicalId":36971,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Science and Policy","volume":"7 1","pages":"63 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44108969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/237946152100700209
K. Raimi
Utilities, governmental agencies, and nonprofit organizations all use interventions meant to spur the public to act in ways that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as by turning down the heat in the winter and limiting beef consumption. Yet critics contend that these interventions promote relatively trivial behaviors while reducing the perceived need to support regulations that would have much more of an effect but might require, say, increased taxes or effort. In other words, promoting behavioral interventions can crowd out the public's support for climate policies. But this undesirable consequence is avoidable. In this article, I propose evidence-based guidelines, which I collectively call the SESH formula, for implementing climate-related behavioral interventions that avoid crowding out support for effective policies. They hold that interventions should (a) push for specific high-impact behaviors, (b) accurately convey the behaviors’ effectiveness, (c) promote behaviors that are similar to (that is, are clearly related to) desirable policies, and (d) frame the desired behaviors as steps toward a higher goal—in this case, climate-change mitigation. I review the evidence for each SESH guideline and identify areas for future research into behavioral interventions that will complement, rather than undermine, climate-change policies.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/237946152100700202
Kelly Peters, David R. Thomson, Nathaniel Barr
To increase efficiencies and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, policymakers and electric utility providers are increasingly adopting time-of-use (TOU) pricing policies, which charge the most for electricity consumption during on-peak hours, the times when the demand for electricity is greatest. TOU policies aim to disincentivize on-peak electricity use in favor of use during usually low-demand, off-peak periods to reduce the suppliers’ need to augment electricity generated by low- or nonemitting sources (such as hydro-electric and nuclear power) with electricity generated by high-emitting sources (such as coal- or gas-fired power plants). Researchers and policymakers are attempting to apply behavioral science tactics to enhance the effectiveness of TOU pricing by making behavioral science-based changes to electricity bills or delivering personalized information about electricity use and pricing, or doing both. In this article, we describe several studies we conducted in Ontario, Canada, in which we examined customer responses to various bill designs and communications. Simplifying bills and emphasizing the high cost of on-peak use (that is, making on-peak pricing more salient) were effective at shifting behavior, as was the delivery of nudge reports, which compared a household's electricity use with its past consumption, offered conservation tips, and asked customers to make a pledge to reduce consumption. These studies demonstrate that incorporating behavioral tactics into existing consumer-facing communications can be an effective, low-cost, and scalable way to induce customers to increase off-peak electricity use and thus limit greenhouse gas emissions.
{"title":"Improving the Effectiveness of Time-of-Use Pricing to Make Household Electricity Consumption More Sustainable","authors":"Kelly Peters, David R. Thomson, Nathaniel Barr","doi":"10.1177/237946152100700202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/237946152100700202","url":null,"abstract":"To increase efficiencies and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, policymakers and electric utility providers are increasingly adopting time-of-use (TOU) pricing policies, which charge the most for electricity consumption during on-peak hours, the times when the demand for electricity is greatest. TOU policies aim to disincentivize on-peak electricity use in favor of use during usually low-demand, off-peak periods to reduce the suppliers’ need to augment electricity generated by low- or nonemitting sources (such as hydro-electric and nuclear power) with electricity generated by high-emitting sources (such as coal- or gas-fired power plants). Researchers and policymakers are attempting to apply behavioral science tactics to enhance the effectiveness of TOU pricing by making behavioral science-based changes to electricity bills or delivering personalized information about electricity use and pricing, or doing both. In this article, we describe several studies we conducted in Ontario, Canada, in which we examined customer responses to various bill designs and communications. Simplifying bills and emphasizing the high cost of on-peak use (that is, making on-peak pricing more salient) were effective at shifting behavior, as was the delivery of nudge reports, which compared a household's electricity use with its past consumption, offered conservation tips, and asked customers to make a pledge to reduce consumption. These studies demonstrate that incorporating behavioral tactics into existing consumer-facing communications can be an effective, low-cost, and scalable way to induce customers to increase off-peak electricity use and thus limit greenhouse gas emissions.","PeriodicalId":36971,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Science and Policy","volume":"7 1","pages":"1 - 15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48350212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/237946152100700205
Tatiana A. Homonoff, Rebecca L. C. Taylor, L. Kao, Doug Palmer
Policies to curb the use of disposable shopping bags take two main forms: (a) They provide market-based incentives, imposing fees or taxes on disposable shopping bags or offering rewards for bringing reusable bags from home, or (b) they impose command -and -control policies, which ban certain types of disposable shopping bags altogether. In this article, we review evidence on the effectiveness of these policy design choices through a behavioral economics lens and highlight best practices for policymakers considering similar legislation.
{"title":"Harnessing Behavioral Science to Design Disposable Shopping Bag Regulations","authors":"Tatiana A. Homonoff, Rebecca L. C. Taylor, L. Kao, Doug Palmer","doi":"10.1177/237946152100700205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/237946152100700205","url":null,"abstract":"Policies to curb the use of disposable shopping bags take two main forms: (a) They provide market-based incentives, imposing fees or taxes on disposable shopping bags or offering rewards for bringing reusable bags from home, or (b) they impose command -and -control policies, which ban certain types of disposable shopping bags altogether. In this article, we review evidence on the effectiveness of these policy design choices through a behavioral economics lens and highlight best practices for policymakers considering similar legislation.","PeriodicalId":36971,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Science and Policy","volume":"7 1","pages":"51 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42628288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Anthropocene epoch refers to the geological epoch, now underway, that is defined by monumental, human-caused geophysical changes in planetary ecosystems. Human society is also changing, marked by an equally profound shift in attitudes, beliefs, and practices. In this article, we apply research on social change in institutions—that is, in the enduring belief systems, ideas, and practices that guide organizations and society— to propose policies that could prepare Anthropocene society to change in ways that would ensure healthier ecosystems. These policies would alter the institutions driving corporate governance, patterns of consumption, the role of science in business and society, and the time horizons used by governments and organizations to plan, and they would help society adapt to unpredictable changes in the climate and in ecosystems. Ultimately, the policies would shift long-standing institutional structures, or logics, that support market capitalism and the belief in technology's ability to solve all problems to help create a more enlightened culture and more stable ecosystems on a rapidly changing planet.
{"title":"Institutional Policies for a Healthy Anthropocene Society","authors":"A. Hoffman, P. Jennings, Nicholas A. Poggioli","doi":"10.1353/bsp.2021.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bsp.2021.0017","url":null,"abstract":"The Anthropocene epoch refers to the geological epoch, now underway, that is defined by monumental, human-caused geophysical changes in planetary ecosystems. Human society is also changing, marked by an equally profound shift in attitudes, beliefs, and practices. In this article, we apply research on social change in institutions—that is, in the enduring belief systems, ideas, and practices that guide organizations and society— to propose policies that could prepare Anthropocene society to change in ways that would ensure healthier ecosystems. These policies would alter the institutions driving corporate governance, patterns of consumption, the role of science in business and society, and the time horizons used by governments and organizations to plan, and they would help society adapt to unpredictable changes in the climate and in ecosystems. Ultimately, the policies would shift long-standing institutional structures, or logics, that support market capitalism and the belief in technology's ability to solve all problems to help create a more enlightened culture and more stable ecosystems on a rapidly changing planet.","PeriodicalId":36971,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Science and Policy","volume":"7 1","pages":"111 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43692571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/237946152100700208
B. Newell, Jeremy Moss
A complete policy response to climate change, habitat destruction, plastic pollution, and other Anthropocene challenges requires action by governments, industries, nongovernmental organizations, and individuals. In this article, we focus on ways to persuade individuals to take action, whether that entails making decisions to reduce their own carbon emissions, lobbying for new laws, or providing leadership in their sphere of influence. We argue that interventions will be most effective if they not only make it easier for people to act (as behavioral science suggests) but also highlight moral reasons for taking action and assure people that their actions make a difference. Such steps should increase humanity's chances of surviving and thriving in the Anthropocene.
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