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Andrew is a writer and behavioral scientist focused on belief construction and how people evaluate new information. He is a PhD candidate in Politics at the University of Oxford, and a doctoral researcher at its Centre for Experimental Social Science (CESS). He was previously at Carnegie Mellon University where he worked at the BEDR Policy Lab and Center for Behavioral and Decision Research (CBDR), and was a research and teaching assistant to George Loewenstein.
Behavioral science is simply incompatible with a policy that requires us to do something — it lacks the necessary enforcement mechanisms.
Nudging Democratized is written for management professionals and scientists to feed their thinking and discussions about implementing behavioral science initiatives (which includes behavioral economics and finance) in business settings.
Seeing the person on the other end of that Twitter argument as a human being could be a powerful antidote to the demonization of our political rivals.
The concept is quite simple: act how you want others to perceive you and, over time, you will come to see yourself that way.
Recognizing and combatting perceived gender differences remains critically important in ensuring economic efficiency.
