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Imagining choosing to the right thing without being nudged...

Submitted by Halcyon Imagines on 21 June 2010

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"Humans have many more options before them than they currently believe, but what to do with too much information is a great riddle of our time", says Theodore Zeldin.

The concept of nudging has been in vogue recently, with its notions of "choice architecture" and gently pushing people towards pro-social behaviours, including ideas as prosaic as painting a fly onto urinals to help men take better aim! (Persuasive technology and captology cover similar themes.)

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