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Incentives Matter

What's new in behavioral science and behavioral economics — how nudges, incentives, and cognitive biases shape decisions in healthcare, finance, risky behaviors, environment, charitable donations, and beyond.

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36 episodis

  1. Goodhart’s Law in Silicon: Why AI Agents Game the Metrics and Ignore the Rules 16:38
  2. The Price of a Promise: How Student Loan Rumors Hijacked Our Wallets 12:20
  3. Paying for Precision: Do Incentives Actually Upgrade Your Working Memory? 12:15
  4. The SALIENT Trials: Can We Nudge the Entire Grocery Aisle? 13:41
  5. Standardizing the Nudge: Why the WHO is Finally Policing Behavioral Science Buzzwords 11:57
  6. Nudging the Grid: Can 2.7 Million People Save the Energy System? 10:54
  7. The Dark Side of the Couple's Nudge: When Financial Planning Backfires 11:10
  8. The Monopoly Mindset: Why the Public Doesn’t Actually Care About Market Share 12:35
  9. The 10% Illusion: Why Individual Climate Nudges Fail Without Systemic Shifts 9:25
  10. Debiasing the Bureaucrats: Can a MOOC Actually Make Policymakers Think Better? 13:11
  11. Split-Second Nudges: Can We Measure 'Behavioral Precision' Before Disaster Strikes? 11:46
  12. Breeding Cobras in the ER: How Healthcare Incentives Accidentally Pay for Sicker Patients 13:55
  13. The Sociopathic Optimizer: Why Scrubbing Cognitive Bias Makes AI Worse 13:06
  14. Don’t Tell Me What To Do: The Hidden Cognitive Cost of AI Advice 12:41
  15. The GLP-1 Illusion: When Viral Anecdotes Meet Hard Behavioral Data 11:07
  16. The Great Phone Ban Experiment: A Nudge or a Hammer? 12:51
  17. The Doer vs. The Fed: Why Rate Hikes Make Us Think Inflation is Getting Worse 11:51
  18. Haunted by HVAC: The 18-Hertz Nudge and the Science of Unseen Stress 14:03
  19. The $18 Trillion Snooze Button: How Banks Profit from Our Inertia 9:42
  20. The I-Frame Illusion: Why Nudging Your Trash Habits Misses the Bigger Picture 14:54
  21. The Decumulation Dilemma: Why We Refuse to Buy Lifetime Income 13:13
  22. Nudging the Nudges: Can We Prompt Users to Fix Their Own Digital Self-Control? 9:05
  23. The Deadly Cost of Context Switching: What 300,000 Surgeries Tell Us About the Brain 10:42
  24. The Danger of "It Depends": Why the Lukewarm Middle is Democracy's Biggest Threat 18:01
  25. When Nudge Comes to Shove: The Godfathers of Behavioral Economics Turn Against Their Creation 12:45
  26. Beyond the Nudge: Cracking the 20% Flu Shot Ceiling on the Healthcare Frontline 17:58
  27. The AI Adoption Illusion: Why Firms Are Buying the Hype But Not the Tech 20:09
  28. The Pass-Through Illusion: Why Voters Demand Bad Climate Policy 18:19
  29. The End of the Nudge Era? Unpacking 'It's On You' 15:20
  30. The Paradox of Warning Signals: Do We Actually Want to Know? 16:34
  31. The Nudge That Backfired: When Digital Tracking Ruins Teamwork 19:27
  32. The Hubris of Choice: Can We Actually Diagnose Bad Decisions? 17:59
  33. The Giving Gulf: Why the Rich Are Doubling Down on Charity While Everyone Else Pulls Back 12:33
  34. The Reminder Effect: Why Your Brain Needs a Nudge, Not a Bonus 20:55
  35. The $528 Billion Gamble: Can Lotteries and Nudges Solve Medication Adherence? 25:41
  36. The Lifespan in Your Swim: Can Your Fitbit Predict How Long You'll Live? 18:09