147. Is Nudging Enough?
No Stupid Questions
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🗓️ 21 May 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Look at that, look at this, it's a tiger weight known, it's not a tiger, it's just a |
| 0:06.1 | breaking news alert, what is this breaking news alert? |
| 0:08.3 | Oh, the breaking news alert is about Kim Kardashian. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Antelda Dukhwer. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Maria Kama-Kova. |
| 0:14.5 | And you're listening to those stupid questions. |
| 0:18.0 | Today on the show, how do you get someone to change their behavior? |
| 0:22.4 | I recycled my can of diet Pepsi and now I've checked off via good environmental citizen |
| 0:28.8 | for the day. |
| 0:34.5 | Angela, for the last few years, we've all spent time sitting at home as COVID has been |
| 0:39.0 | raging and thinking about all of the different ways that the public has been receiving messages |
| 0:46.4 | from the government, from the who, from all of these public health organizations about |
| 0:51.8 | what we're supposed to be doing, how we're supposed to be doing it. |
| 0:54.8 | And this is something that we should be paying attention to because people are changing |
| 0:59.7 | the way they talk about it. |
| 1:00.7 | They are changing the language about it. |
| 1:02.4 | They are changing the thinking about it. |
| 1:04.6 | And along with that, they're changing how they're communicating to the public. |
| 1:10.8 | And some of these communication decisions, you know, should you ask what about vaccines? |
| 1:15.6 | It's really made me think about the classic social psychology work of Richard Taylor |
| 1:20.3 | about nudges. |
| 1:22.1 | And what's actually the best way to make good decisions? |
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