The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy
Edited by Eldar Shafir

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Foreword vii
   Daniel Kahneman
List of Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
   Eldar Shafir

Part 1. Prejudice and Discrimination

• Chapter 1. The Nature of Implicit Prejudice: Implications for Personal and Public Policy 13
•    Curtis D. Hardin, Mahzarin R. Banaji
• Chapter 2. Biases in Interracial Interactions: Implications for Social Policy 32
•    J. Nicole Shelton, Jennifer A. Richeson, John F. Dovidio
• Chapter 3. Policy Implications of Unexamined Discrimination: Gender Bias in Employment as a Case Study 52
•    Susan T. Fiske, Linda H. Krieger

Part 2. Social Interactions

• Chapter 4. The Psychology of Cooperation: Implications for Public Policy 77
•    Tom Tyler
• Chapter 5. Rethinking Why People Vote: Voting as Dynamic Social Expression 91
•    Todd Rogers, Craig R. Fox, Alan S. Gerber
• Chapter 6. Perspectives on Disagreement and Dispute Resolution: Lessons from the Lab and the Real World 108
•    Lee Ross
• Chapter 7. Psychic Numbing and Mass Atrocity 126
•    Paul Slovic, David Zionts, Andrew K. Woods, Ryan Goodman, Derek Jinks

Part 3. The Justice System

• Chapter 8. Eyewitness Identification and the Legal System 145
•     Nancy K. Steblay, Elizabeth F. Loftus
• Chapter 9. False Convictions 163
•    Phoebe Ellsworth, Sam Gross
• Chapter 10. Behavioral Issues of Punishment, Retribution, and Deterrence 181
•    John M. Darley, Adam L. Alter

Part 4. Bias and Competence

• Chapter 11. Claims and Denials of Bias and Their Implications for Policy 195
•    Emily Pronin, Kathleen Schmidt
• Chapter 12. Questions of Competence: The Duty to Inform and the Limits to Choice 217
•    Baruch Fischhoff, Sara L. Eggers
• Chapter 13. If Misfearing Is the Problem, Is Cost-Benefit Analysis the Solution? 231
•    Cass R. Sunstein

Part 5. Behavioral Economics and Finance

• Chapter 14. Choice Architecture and Retirement Saving Plans 245
•    Shlomo Benartzi, Ehud Peleg, Richard H. Thaler
• Chapter 15. Behavioral Economics Analysis of Employment Law 264
•    Christine Jolls
• Chapter 16. Decision Making and Policy in Contexts of Poverty 281
•    Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir

Part 6. Behavior Change

• Chapter 17. Psychological Levers of Behavior Change 301
•    Dale T. Miller, Deborah A. Prentice
• Chapter 18. Turning Mindless Eating into Healthy Eating 310
•    Brian Wansink
• Chapter 19. A Social Psychological Approach to Educational Intervention 329
•    Julio Garcia, Geoffrey L. Cohen

Part 7. Improving Decisions

• Chapter 20. Beyond Comprehension: Figuring Out Whether Decision Aids Improve People's Decisions 351
•    Peter Ubel
• Chapter 21. Using Decision Errors to Help People Help Themselves 361
•    George Loewenstein, Leslie John, Kevin G. Volpp
• Chapter 22. Doing the Right Thing Willingly: Using the Insights of Behavioral Decision Research for Better Environmental Decisions 380
•    Elke U. Weber
• Chapter 23. Overcoming Decision Biases to Reduce Losses from Natural Catastrophes 398
•    Howard Kunreuther, Robert Meyer, Erwann Michel-Kerjan

Part 8. Decision Contexts

• Chapter 24. Decisions by Default 417
•    Eric J. Johnson, Daniel G. Goldstein
• Chapter 25. Choice Architecture 428
•    Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein, John P. Balz
• Chapter 26. Behaviorally Informed Regulation 440
•    Michael S. Barr, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir

Part 9. Commentaries

• Chapter 27. Psychology and Economic Policy 465
•    William J. Congdon
• Chapter 28. Behavioral Decision Science Applied to Health-Care Policy 475
•    Donald A. Redelmeier
• Chapter 29. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Debiasing the Policy Makers Themselves 481
•    Paul Brest
• Chapter 30. Paternalism, Manipulation, Freedom, and the Good 494
•    Judith Lichtenberg

Index 499

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