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Law & Behavioral Sciences
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How Special is Democracy?: An Experimental Study of Recommendations in the Minimum Effort Game
October 8, 2025
Johanna Mollerstrom & Cass R. Sunstein, How Special is Democracy?: An Experimental Study of Recommendations in the Minimum Effort Game, 190 Econ. Letters (2020).
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On Offense History and the Theory of Deterrence
October 8, 2025
A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, On Offense History and the Theory of Deterrence, 18 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 305 (1998).
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Algorithms as Discrimination Detectors
October 1, 2025
Jon Kleinberg, Jens Ludwig, Sendhil Mullainathan & Cass R. Sunstein, Algorithms as Discrimination Detectors, 117 Proc. Nat’l Acad. Sci. 33096 (Dec. 1, 2020).
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How Behavioural Sciences Can Promote Truth, Autonomy and Democratic Discourse Online
October 1, 2025
Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Stephan Lewandowsky, Cass R. Sunstein & Ralph Hertwig, How Behavioural Sciences Can Promote Truth, Autonomy and Democratic Discourse Online, 4 Nature Hum. Behav.
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Epistemic Spillovers: Learning Others’ Political Views Reduces the Ability to Assess and Use Their Expertise in Nonpolitical Domains
September 30, 2025
Joseph Marks, Eloise Copland, Eleanor Loh, Cass R. Sunstein & Tali Sharot, Epistemic Spillovers: Learning Others’ Political Views Reduces the Ability to Assess and Use…
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Public Support for Pictorial Warnings on Cigarette Packs: An Experimental Study of US Smokers
September 30, 2025
Marissa G. Hall, Theresa M. Marteau, Cass R. Sunstein, Kurt M. Ribisl, Seth M. Noar, Elizabeth N. Orlan & Noel T. Brewer, Public Support for…
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Should Governments Invest More in Nudging?
September 30, 2025
Shlomo Benartzi, John Beshears, Katherine L. Milkman, Cass R. Sunstein, Richard H. Thaler, Maya Shankar, Will Tucker-Ray, William J. Congdon, Steven Galing, Should Governments Invest…
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Default Rules Are Better Than Active Choosing (Often)
September 30, 2025
Cass R. Sunstein, Default Rules Are Better Than Active Choosing (Often), 21 Trends Cognitive Sci. 600 (2017).
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Obesity Prevention in the Supermarket—Choice Architecture and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
September 30, 2025
Cass R. Sunstein (with Anne Thorndike), Obesity Prevention in the Supermarket–Choice Architecture and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, 107 Am. J. Pub. Health 1582 (2017).
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Choosing Not to Choose
September 30, 2025
Cass R. Sunstein, Choosing Not to Choose, 64 Duke L.J. 1 (2014).
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Moral Heuristics
September 30, 2025
Cass R. Sunstein, Moral Heuristics, 28 Behav. & Brain Sci. 531 (2005).
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The Council of Psychological Advisers
September 30, 2025
Cass R. Sunstein, The Council of Psychological Advisers, in 67 Ann. Rev. Psychol. 713 (Susan T. Fiske, Daniel L. Schacter & Shelley E. Taylor eds.,…
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The Origin of Risk Aversion
September 30, 2025
Ruixun Zhang, Thomas J. Brennan & Andrew W. Lo, The Origin of Risk Aversion, 111 Proc. Nat’l Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 17777 (2014).
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Group Selection as Behavioral Adaptation to Systematic Risk
September 30, 2025
Ruixun Zhang, Thomas J. Brennan & Andrew W. Lo, Group Selection as Behavioral Adaptation to Systematic Risk, PLOS ONE, Oct. 2014, at 1.
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An Evolutionary Model of Bounded Rationality and Intelligence
September 30, 2025
Thomas J. Brennan & Andrew W. Lo, An Evolutionary Model of Bounded Rationality and Intelligence, PLOS ONE, Nov. 2012, at 1.
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The Science of Fake News
September 29, 2025
David M. J. Lazer, Matthew A. Baum, Yochai Benkler, Adam J. Berinsky, Kelly M. Greenhill, Filippo Menczer, Miriam J. Metzger, Brendan Nyhan, Gordon Pennycook, David…
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The distributional effects of nudges
September 27, 2025
Cass R. Sunstein, The Distributional Effects of Nudges, 6 Nature Hum. Behav. 9 (2021).
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Green Defaults Can Combat Climate Change
September 27, 2025
Cass R. Sunstein, Green Defaults Can Combat Climate Change,Nature Hum. Behav. (Mar. 11, 2021).