September 2013
Beginner
320 pages
6h 20m
English
The trick to inducing conformity: keeping up with the Joneses.
How do you make people change their behaviour? Peer pressure – a branch of ‘nudge theory’ advocated by Cass Sunstein – has been consistently demonstrated as a powerful tool for making individuals act differently. Such has been the take-up of the concept that both the British and American governments have begun adopting some of its techniques in a bid to make their citizens more environmentally friendly. This policy development has arisen as a result of a number of high-profile studies highlighting the benefits of the ...
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