Nudging societally relevant behavior by promoting cognitive inferences.

ABSTRACT: Effective behavioral interventions are essential to address urgent societal challenges. Over the past decade, nudging interventions (i.e., arranging the environment to promote adaptive behavioral choices) have surged in popularity. Importantly, effective application of the nudging approach requires clear guiding principles with a firm basis in behavioral science. We present a framework for nudging interventions that builds on evidence about the goal-directed inferential processes underlying behavior (i.e., processes that involve context-dependent inferences about goals and the actions available to achieve these goals). We used this framework to develop nudging interventions that target context-relevant cognitive inferences. We examined the effectiveness of these inference nudging intervent

SUBMITTER: Van Dessel P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9161190 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature