Behavioural Public Policy

2017 - 2026

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Volume 10, issue 2, 2026

Normative rationality after behavioral economics: what is left? pp. 225-234

Mario J Rizzo

Getting the message right: what are the impacts of counter-serious and organised crime awareness-raising strategies? pp. 235-255

Nic Cheeseman and Caryn Peiffer

Deception aversion, communal norm violation and consumer responses to prosocial initiatives pp. 256-273

Despoina Alempaki, Andrea Isoni and Daniel Read

Beliefs, observability and donation revision in charitable giving: evidence from an online experiment pp. 274-291

Guanlin Gao and Xinyan Shi

The effect of timers and precommitments on handwashing: a randomised controlled trial in a kitchen laboratory pp. 292-316

James Thom, Sarah Bowen, Yuchen Yang, Sanjeev Devarajan, Helen Doran, Marios Zampetis, Trisevgeni Papakonstantinou, Maria McDonagh, Robert McPhedran, Ben Toombs, Ayla Ibrahimi Jarchlo, Alice Rayner, Philip Jones and Natalie Gold

Two steps forward, one step back: negative spillovers in water conservation pp. 317-336

Ching Leong, Joost Buurman and Swee Kiat Tay

Behavioral finance impacts on US stock market volatility: an analysis of market anomalies pp. 337-361

Isik Akin and Meryem Akin

Frame plurality and ‘or/rationality’: a dialogic approach to the behavioral state pp. 362-381

Ruth Schmidt and Katelyn Stenger

Harnessing heterogeneity in behavioural research using computational social science pp. 382-399

Giuseppe A. Veltri

Positive public sector stereotypes and their impact on public service delivery: an audit experiment pp. 400-437

Gabriela Szydlowski, Noortje de Boer and Lars Tummers

Titles as identity: applying self-determination theory to increase sponsorships by experienced private refugee sponsors in Canada pp. 438-446

Sarah Chudleigh

Bounded Rationality: Heuristics, Judgement, and Public Policy Sanjit Dhami and Cass R. Sunstein. MIT Press, 2022, 533 pp pp. 447-453

Alejandro Hortal

Volume 10, issue 1, 2026

The paradox of disclosure: shifting policies from revealing to resolving conflicts of interest pp. 1-12

Sunita Sah

Deposit? Yes, please! The effect of different modes of assigning reward- and deposit-based financial incentives on effort pp. 13-41

Stefan A. Lipman, Nienke W. Boderie, Jasper V. Been and Hans van Kippersluis

Boosting vs. nudging sustainable energy consumption: a long-term comparative field test in a residential context pp. 42-67

Yavor Paunov and Till Grüne-Yanoff

A behavioural investigation of the substitution phenomenon between tax-sheltered savings plans pp. 68-89

Leslie Berger, Jonathan Farrar, Lu Zhang and Joanna Andrejkow

The effects of Veganuary on meal choices in workplace cafeterias: an interrupted time series analysis pp. 90-109

Robert McPhedran, Shi Zhuo, Letizia Zamperetti and Natalie Gold

How are milk substitutes labelled in the UK? Should the term ‘milk’ be added to milk substitute labelling? pp. 110-126

Katie De-loyde, Mark A. Pilling, Marcus R. Munafò, Angela Attwood and Olivia M. Maynard

Nudges can be both autonomy-preserving and effective: evidence from a survey and quasi-field experiment pp. 127-150

Henrico van Roekel, Laura M. Giurge, Carina Schott and Lars Tummers

Political expertise, ecological rationality and party cues pp. 151-170

Daniel E. Bergan, Dustin Carnahan and Isabel Virtue

Dark patterns and sludge audits: an integrated approach pp. 171-197

Stuart Mills, Richard Whittle, Rafi Ahmed, Tom Walsh and Martin Wessel

The antipaternalist psychology of William James pp. 198-223

Mario J. Rizzo

Volume 9, issue 4, 2025

Getting lost in a field: a personal history of the development of behavioural public policy pp. 647-651

Adam Oliver

Cultural evolutionary behavioural science in public policy pp. 652-682

Robin Schimmelpfennig and Michael Muthukrishna

Carrots, sticks, sermons or nudges? Survey evidence of the Swedish general public's attitude towards different public policy tools pp. 683-708

Patric Andersson and Gustav Almqvist

Effect of visualising and re-expressing evidence of policy effectiveness on perceived effectiveness: a population-based survey experiment pp. 709-727

James P. Reynolds, Alice Hobson, Minna Ventsel, Mark A. Pilling, Theresa M. Marteau and Gareth J. Hollands

But does the nudge fit? Institutional structure and behavioural insights pp. 728-744

Weston Merrick

The effect of transparent unequal penalty rates on safety compliance for different-sized businesses pp. 745-761

Christoph Kogler, Jerome Olsen, Magda Osman and Marcel Zeelenberg

Evaluation of the ‘take time to think’ safer gambling message: a randomised, online experimental study pp. 762-779

Philip W. S. Newall, Ty Hayes, Henrik Singmann, Leonardo Weiss-Cohen, Elliot A. Ludvig and Lukasz Walasek

Behavioural public policies for the social brain pp. 780-802

Sanchayan Banerjee and Siddhartha Mitra

Improving compliance with COVID-19 guidance: a workplace field experiment pp. 803-825

Danae Arroyos-Calvera, Michalis Drouvelis, Johannes Lohse and Rebecca McDonald

Transactional fairness in consumer markets pp. 826-848

Bruce Lyons and Robert Sugden

Take up pp. 849-864

Dafna F. Bearson and Cass R. Sunstein

How sludge impairs the effectiveness of policy programs: a field experiment with SMEs pp. 865-873

Manuel Grieder, Deborah Kistler and Jan Schmitz

Moving from nudging to boosting: empowering behaviour change to address global challenges pp. 874-885

Ralph Hertwig, Susan Michie, Robert West and Stephen Reicher

The ethics of boost pp. 886-893

Luc Bovens

A reply to Luc Bovens: ethics and impact of boosting and nudging pp. 894-897

Ralph Hertwig, Susan Michie, Stephen Reicher and Robert West

Review of ‘A theory of everyone’ by Michael Muthukrishna pp. 898-900

Lionel Page

John A. List: The Voltage Effect—How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale New York, NY, Currency, 2022, 288 pp pp. 901-906

Nopadol Rompho

Escaping Paternalism: Rationality, Behavioral Economics and Public Policy Mario J. Rizzo and Glen Whitman. Cambridge University Press, 2020, xii+496 pages pp. 907-914

Malte Dold

Volume 9, issue 3, 2025

Process, rationality and human wellbeing pp. 485-494

Malte Dold, David Harper, Shruti Rajagopalan and Glen Whitman

The rationality wars: a personal reflection pp. 495-515

Gerd Gigerenzer

On choice inconsistency: the ‘error’ error in behavioural paternalism pp. 516-529

Adam Oliver

Standard rationality versus inclusive rationality: a critical assessment pp. 530-544

Roberto Fumagalli

Nudges, preferences and competences: a critique of both neoclassical and behavioral economics pp. 545-559

Richard A. Epstein

Learning-by-doing: an insight worthy of the pantheon and how to do it in teams pp. 560-574

Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap

The tacit dimension and behavioural public policy: insights from Hayek and Polanyi pp. 575-592

Agnès Festré and Stein Østbye

An s-frame agenda for behavioral public policy research pp. 593-613

Daniel J. Connolly, George Loewenstein and Nick Chater

Knightian uncertainty in the regulatory context pp. 614-629

Cass R. Sunstein

Economics in a world amid flux pp. 630-645

Peter J. Boettke

Volume 9, issue 2, 2025

Honouring Daniel Kahneman pp. 271-275

Adam Oliver

Valuing life pp. 276-284

Paul Slovic

Daniel Kahneman and the concept of the true self pp. 285-292

Robert Sugden

The outrage heuristic pp. 293-300

Cass R. Sunstein

Back to Kahneman pp. 301-310

Daniel Read

Why Kahneman matters pp. 311-318

Mario J. Rizzo and Glen Whitman

Happiness fast and slow? pp. 319-323

Paul Frijters

Kahneman’s tryst with reasonableness: a tease unfulfilled? pp. 324-330

Sanchayan Banerjee and Malte Dold

Hallsworth’s manifesto through a cultural theory lens pp. 331-337

Peter John

The narrative that should guide applied behavioural science pp. 338-344

Malte Dold

Four SINS in behavioural public policy pp. 345-353

Chiara Varazzani and Cale Hubble

The limits of self-reflection pp. 354-357

Michael Hallsworth

Goods that people buy but wish did not exist pp. 358-368

Cass R. Sunstein

Labor market traps pp. 369-378

Eric A. Posner

Should regulators care that we buy so many things we wish did not exist? pp. 379-385

Robert H. Frank

Public managers’ trust in citizens and their preferences for behavioral policy instruments: evidence from a mixed-methods study pp. 386-409

Koen Migchelbrink and Pieter Raymaekers

Defaults are not a panacea: distinguishing between default effects on choices and on outcomes pp. 410-425

David A. Kalkstein, Fabiana De Lima, Shannon T. Brady, Christopher S. Rozek, Eric J. Johnson and Gregory M. Walton

Promoting sustainable diets using eco-labelling and social nudges: a randomised online experiment pp. 426-442

Katie De-loyde, Mark A. Pilling, Amelia Thornton, Grace Spencer and Olivia M. Maynard

Unfair commercial practices in a pit market: evidence from an artefactual field experiment pp. 443-460

Francesco Bogliacino, Rafael Charris, Cristiano Codagnone, Frans Folkvord, Felipe Montealegre and Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva

What is the psychological appeal of the serial rapist model? Worldviews predicting endorsement pp. 461-476

Ana P. Gantman and Elizabeth Levy Paluck

Reciprocity and the Art of Behavioural Public Policy By Adam Oliver. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 208 pp pp. 477-481

Atrina Oraee

Having a voice in your group: Increasing productivity through group participation – ERRATUM pp. 482-483

Sherry Jueyu Wu and Elizabeth Levy Paluck

The Role of Framing and Effort in Green Nudging Acceptance – ERRATUM pp. 484-484

Sonja Grelle, Sascha Kuhn, Hanna Fuhrmann-Riebel and Wilhelm Hofmann

Volume 9, issue 1, 2025

Banishing the inner Econ and justifying paternalistic nudges pp. 4-15

Daniel M. Hausman

Increasing COVID-19 vaccination intentions: a field experiment on psychological ownership pp. 16-35

Florian Keppeler, Martin Sievert and Sebastian Jilke

Can vaccination intentions against COVID-19 be nudged? pp. 36-60

Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Jaroslaw Kantorowicz and Liam Wells

Dark patterns in online shopping: do they work and can nudges help mitigate impulse buying? pp. 61-87

Ray Sin, Ted Harris, Simon Nilsson and Talia Beck

Call first, pay later: stimulating debtors to contact their creditors improves debt collection in the context of financial scarcity pp. 88-105

Malte Dewies, Astrid Schop-Etman, Inge Merkelbach, Kirsten I. M. Rohde and Semiha Denktaş

The effects of policy design complexity on public support for climate policy pp. 106-131

Lukas Paul Fesenfeld

Information effects on parental choices for early childhood education and care pp. 132-154

Samantha Burns, Adrienne Davidson, Linda White, Delaine Hampton and Michal Perlman

The slippery slope of rights-restricting temporary measures: an experimental analysis pp. 155-175

Marina Motsenok, Talya Steiner, Liat Netzer, Yuval Feldman and Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan

The impact on nudge acceptability judgements of framing and consultation of the targeted population pp. 176-191

Ismaël Rafaï, Arthur Ribaillier and Dorian Jullien

Having a voice in your group: Increasing productivity through group participation pp. 192-211

Sherry Jueyu Wu and Elizabeth Levy Paluck

Who nudges whom? Expert opinions on behavioural field experiments with public partners pp. 212-248

Katja Marie Fels

Agentic preferences: a foundation for nudging when preferences are endogenous pp. 249-269

Mark Fabian and Malte Dold