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What is the Nudge Theory?

Nudge theory is a flexible and modern concept for: Understanding of how people  think , make  decisions , and  behave, Helping people  improve their  thinking  and  decisions, Managing change  of all sorts, and Identifying  and  modifying existing unhelpful influences  on people. People are greatly influenced by consumption norms within a social or family group. A light eater will eat much more than they usually would when they find themselves with a group of heavy eaters. A heavy eater will eat less when they are with a group of  light eaters. The average group behavior therefore can exert a great deal of influence.  Nudge theory was named and popularized by the 2008 book, ' Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness ', written by American academics Richard H Thaler and Cass R Sunstein. The book is based strongly on the Nobel prize-winning work of the Israeli-American psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. Background - Thaler and Sunstein 'Nudg

ALL LIVING BEINGS HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIVE THEIR LIVES

 

Behavior by Culture

 

Treat Me Right

[Life] Save one today...save the world entire

This is how evil started among us. It started with the belief that the 'ends justify the means'. And once we started down that path, there was no turning back. Our history shows this clearly in black and white. What if you can save a 100 lives, by letting 10 sentient beings die? Or 500? Or a MILLION to save a BILLION? Where do you stop? (we domesticated animals so we could survive by eating them, we killed to live and now at the end of that path it's killing us by killing our home planet).  It has to stop now.

Monkey See, Monkey Do(and so do you!)

The information meme above is describing a 'nudge'. A nudge makes it more likely that an individual will make a particular choice, or behave in a particular way, by altering the environment so that automatic cognitive processes are triggered to favor the desired outcome. An individual's behavior is not always in alignment with their intentions (termed a value-action gap ). It is common knowledge that humans are not fully rational beings; that is, people will often do something that is not in their own self-interest, even when they are aware that their actions are not in their best interest.  For example, when hungry, people who diet often underestimate their ability to lose weight, and their intentions to eat healthy can be temporarily weakened until they are satiated.