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Choice Architecture

How Situations Influence Decisions

Michael Mauboussin, the first guest on our podcast, The Knowledge Project, explains how our situations influence our decisions enormously in Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition. …

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The Default Choice, So Hard to Resist

The Web offers choice and competition that is only one click away. But in practice, the power of defaults often matters most. This article in the NYT flags some interesting points on technological …

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