The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy / / ed. by Eldar Shafir.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Alter, Adam L.,; Balz, John P.,; Banaji, Mahzarin R.,; Barr, Michael S.,; Benartzi, Shlomo,; Brest, Paul,; Cohen, Geoffrey L.,; Congdon, William J.,; Darley, John M.,; Dovidio, John F.,; Eggers, Sara L.,; Ellsworth, Phoebe,; Fischhoff, Baruch,; Fiske, Susan T.,; Fox, Craig R.,; Garcia, Julio,; Gerber, Alan S.,; Goldstein, Daniel G.,; Goodman, Ryan,; Gross, Sam,; Hardin, Curtis D.,; Jinks, Derek,; John, Leslie,; Johnson, Eric J.,; Jolls, Christine,; Kahneman, Daniel,; Krieger, Linda H.,; Kunreuther, Howard,; Lichtenberg, Judith,; Loewenstein, George,; Loftus, Elizabeth F.,; Meyer, Robert,; Michel-Kerjan, Erwann,; Miller, Dale T.,; Mullainathan, Sendhil,; Peleg, Ehud,; Prentice, Deborah A.,; Pronin, Emily,; Redelmeier, Donald A.,; Richeson, Jennifer A.,; Rogers, Todd,; Ross, Lee,; Schmidt, Kathleen,; Shafir, Eldar,; Shelton, J. Nicole,; Slovic, Paul,; Steblay, Nancy K.,; Sunstein, Cass R.,; Thaler, Richard H.,; Tyler, Tom,; Ubel, Peter,; Volpp, Kevin G.,; Wansink, Brian,; Weber, Elke U.,; Woods, Andrew K.,; Zionts, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Shafir, Eldar,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (536 p.) :; 35 line illus. 23 tables.

In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in behavioral research on a wide variety of topics, from behavioral finance, labor contracts, philanthropy, and the analysis of savings and poverty, to eyewitness identification and sentencing decisions, racism, sexism, health behaviors, and voting. Research findings have often been strikingly counterintuitive, with serious implications for public policymaking. In this book, leading experts in psychology, decision research, policy analysis, economics, political science, law, medicine, and philosophy explore major trends, principles, and general insights about human behavior in policy-relevant settings. Their work provides a deeper understanding of the many drivers--cognitive, social, perceptual, motivational, and emotional--that guide behaviors in everyday settings. They give depth and insight into the methods of behavioral research, and highlight how this knowledge might influence the implementation of public policy for the improvement of society. This collection examines the policy relevance of behavioral science to our social and political lives, to issues ranging from health, environment, and nutrition, to dispute resolution, implicit racism, and false convictions. The book illuminates the relationship between behavioral findings and economic analyses, and calls attention to what policymakers might learn from this vast body of groundbreaking work. Wide-ranging investigation into people's motivations, abilities, attitudes, and perceptions finds that they differ in profound ways from what is typically assumed. The result is that public policy acquires even greater significance, since rather than merely facilitating the conduct of human affairs, policy actually shapes their trajectory. The first interdisciplinary look at behaviorally informed policymaking Leading behavioral experts across the social sciences consider important policy problems A compendium of behavioral findings and their application to relevant policy domains

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Prejudice and Discrimination -- Chapter 1. The Nature of Implicit Prejudice -- Chapter 2. Biases in Interracial Interactions -- Chapter 3. Policy Implications of Unexamined Discrimination -- Part 2. Social Interactions -- Chapter 4. The Psychology of Cooperation -- Chapter 5. Rethinking Why People Vote -- Chapter 6. Perspectives on Disagreement and Dispute Resolution -- Chapter 7. Psychic Numbing and Mass Atrocity -- Part 3. The Justice System -- Chapter 8. Eyewitness Identification and the Legal System -- Chapter 9. False Convictions -- Chapter 10. Behavioral Issues of Punishment, Retribution, and Deterrence -- Part 4. Bias and Competence -- Chapter 11. Claims and Denials of Bias and Their Implications for Policy -- Chapter 12. Questions of Competence -- Chapter 13. If Misfearing Is the Problem, Is Cost-Benefit Analysis the Solution? -- Part 5. Behavioral Economics and Finance -- Chapter 14. Choice Architecture and Retirement Saving Plans -- Chapter 15. Behavioral Economics Analysis of Employment Law -- Chapter 16. Decision Making and Policy in Contexts of Poverty -- Part 6. Behavior Change -- Chapter 17. Psychological Levers of Behavior Change -- Chapter 18. Turning Mindless Eating into Healthy Eating -- Chapter 19. A Social Psychological Approach to Educational Intervention -- Part 7. Improving Decisions -- Chapter 20. Beyond Comprehension -- Chapter 21. Using Decision Errors to Help People Help Themselves -- Chapter 22. Doing the Right Thing Willingly -- Chapter 23. Overcoming Decision Biases to Reduce Losses from Natural Catastrophes -- Part 8. Decision Contexts -- Chapter 24. Decisions by Default -- Chapter 25. Choice Architecture -- Chapter 26 Behaviorally Informed Regulation -- Part 9. Commentaries -- Chapter 27. Psychology and Economic Policy -- Chapter 28. Behavioral Decision Science Applied to Health-Care Policy -- Chapter 29. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -- Chapter 30. Paternalism, Manipulation, Freedom, and the Good -- Index