Sentences with phrase «of nudging»

''... my tentative sense is that, on balance, the Supreme Court's decisions post-Bush v. Gore have tended to have the overall effect of nudging the law slightly in a liberal direction.»

Such persons are choice architects and they have the opportunity of nudging people to make choices that may be good for them.

To speak of nudging «public» behavior in terms of chewing up court resources misses the fact that auto insurers chew up a huge amount of Ontario's publicly funded civil court resources.

(Yes, this is my way of nudging discussion of McIntyre's submission, or the S&T committee report in general, to this thread — the IOP thread should be for IOP only.

The EU high - level group on sustainable finance was set up by the European Commission last December to look into ways of nudging the financial system towards long - term environmental and social objectives.»

There, at least, the recent burst of research in the field and labs doesn't point to a «monster behind the door,» to reprise a phrase from Steve Pacala of Princeton describing the consequential but uncertain risks of nudging a big system in novel ways.

Why U.S. players didn't just get a similar Mystery Gift option is a bit odd, but perhaps it's also one way of nudging them into Target stores.

Investors clearly find this promise appealing — with a lot of nudging from their advisors, no doubt.

With a little time and a bit of nudging, it's become evident that the parents of kids are in mediocre schools are game to consider better options.

Second, Greene focuses on the potential downsides of nudging students to follow through on their postsecondary intentions and plans.

In my mind this begs an important question, and highlights the primary point of disagreement I have with Greene's assessment of nudging: While we continue to advocate for legislative and bureaucratic solutions to burdensome procedures and applications, should we intervene to support students to make more active and informed decisions during these critical junctures, or should we let them figure it out for themselves?

He was kind of nudging my head down, and I just didn't want him to hate me, so I did it.»

The movie milks its formula of nudging the period for all it is worth in the first act (There's a running joke about the lack of smiling subjects in photographs, and the racism of the time is acknowledged with a shooting gallery with targets that are despicable racial caricatures — acknowledged but not addressed in any worthwhile way until a cameo that concludes the movie).

Fine, but why couldn't Shyamalan plan a fascinating itinerary instead of nudging us down his well - trodden blind path?

Gabriel Knight does an excellent job of nudging you in the right direction when you need it.

Get used to it Katie, men always need a bit of nudging.

«The food service operators and the retail sector have been using the principles of nudging to push its products to the consumers e.g. placing specific products at adult's eye level, while other products are left at children's eye level.

In a review of existing literature, Marteau did find descriptions of nudging being used to improve health behaviors — one study reports a 70 % increase in the amount of fruit bought by school children at lunchtime after fruit was placed by the cash register — but these interventions have not been evaluated on a large scale or assessed for cost - effectiveness.

I don't think it's very important that people support the idea of nudging in the abstract.

The Riot team has also tested other ways of nudging player behaviour.

«We had a hunch that nudging, and especially digital nudging, would be very cost effective, but I was truly surprised to see that the cost effectiveness of nudging is often 100, and even 1,000, times greater than more traditional interventions,» says co-author Shlomo Benartzi, a professor at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Mounting a smartwatch screen on a pair of gamepad motion sensors lets users pan, twist and tilt the screen to navigate content, instead of nudging tiny on - screen icons.

Whether baby takes to the bottle right away or requires a bit of nudging along, he'll soon learn to enjoy his bottle feeding time with you as much as he did breastfeeding.

I see my role as that of nudging the Catholic Church gently towards a more genuinely humanistic worldview and practice.

Well, rather than continuing on ad nauseam after asking an important qualifying question in hopes of nudging your prospect's answer in a particular direction, you're letting reality sink in.

The last bit of the Consumer Decision Journey I haven't yet mentioned is the possibility of nudging users into a «loyalty loop» where they no longer re-consider new brands before each purchase (within a specific product category) and stick to your brand for all similar future purchases.

Some still advocate sticking to a policy of nudging down interest rates further, such as by scrapping a 0.1 percent floor set on money market rates.

The co-founder and CTO of Nudge Rewards shares with Anthony Lacavera the importance of mentors in building a business and how these relationships help create opportunities.

The co-founder and CTO of Nudge Rewards Dessy Daskalov shares with Anthony Lacavera the importance of mentors in building a business and how these relationships help create opportunities.

«Sometimes we just get kind of nudged there.

The match started with both teams a little skeptical in going forward, exchanging passes with team - mates, intercepting the opponents» through - balls, and killing off intelligent moves with the slightest of nudges.

Left one on one with the rapid Ramadan Sobhi in the first - half, the winger's eyes wide with excitement as he considered a vast expanse of grass ahead of him, the Everton defender gave his opponent the slightest of nudges.

I gave her more of a nudge than the others, as I was ready to be done by that point.

, I'm also getting lots of nudges about nesting.

That's also a good sign that mom can kind of nudge her toddler into letting go of others.

My daughter, for example, needing a bit of a nudge to talk to that initial coach and we were right there helping her work through that.

Normally, in the absence of a nudge from society, they err on the side of giving to family rather than society as their motivating goal to continue producing.

So, he argues, the whole idea of democratic disagreement is becoming replaced by this kind of nudge theory and tailored service provision in areas such as crime or health policy.

«But it's worth noting that our environment is full of nudges that, for the most part, make our lives safer, easier and more comfortable.»

I don't believe some of the nudges and winks being directed at John Randall, which infer that the Deputy Chief Whip wanted his prickly superior out of the way.

But without much of a nudge, Landi was quite forthcoming.

The team compared the effectiveness of nudge - type strategies with more standard policy interventions, calculating the ratio between an intervention's causal effect and its implementation cost.

With this in mind, a research team including academics and practitioners inside and outside of government examined existing studies to evaluate the relative cost effectiveness of nudges and other policy interventions.

Like a boulder perched at the top of a hill, with a bit of a nudge, the electron tumbles from higher energy states to lower, releasing energy along the way.

When those good performance signals were missing, the researchers delivered a short burst of electricity to the brain — «a bit of a nudge to course correct,» Ezzyat says.

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The purpose of this experiment was to see how the participants reacted to the different kind of nudges, i.e. warning messages and compatibility information provided by the e-commerce website regarding the products they were purchasing.

«I think what is needed is more research to find out the characteristics of nudges that are effective and the context in which they will be most effective with and without regulation.»

The results of this study indicate that the right kind of nudges would be an effective solution for encouraging safe and satisfactory online shopping.

By giving the brain a series of nudges — in other words, by triggering K - complexes — could they strengthen the waves into a pattern that mimicked slow wave sleep?