期刊
BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES
卷 46, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X22002023
关键词
addiction; behavior change; behavioral economics; behavioral public policy; climate change; framing; nudge; obesity
资金
- The authors gratefully acknowledge invaluable research and editorial help from Aden Halpern, help on the privacy and education sections from Alessandro Acquisti and Najeeb Shafiq, respectively, and valuable comments from Max Bazerman, Linda Dezso, Angela D
A mistaken belief in behavioral science is that societal problems can be solved by addressing individual behavior, without considering systemic changes. This has led to a misguided focus on individual-level interventions and a neglect of systemic policies. The authors argue that behavioral scientists should contribute to public policy through system-level changes that create value.
An influential line of thinking in behavioral science, to which the two authors have long subscribed, is that many of society's most pressing problems can be addressed cheaply and effectively at the level of the individual, without modifying the system in which the individual operates. We now believe this was a mistake, along with, we suspect, many colleagues in both the academic and policy communities. Results from such interventions have been disappointingly modest. But more importantly, they have guided many (though by no means all) behavioral scientists to frame policy problems in individual, not systemic, terms: To adopt what we call the i-frame, rather than the s-frame. The difference may be more consequential than i-frame advocates have realized, by deflecting attention and support away from s-frame policies. Indeed, highlighting the i-frame is a long-established objective of corporate opponents of concerted systemic action such as regulation and taxation. We illustrate our argument briefly for six policy problems, and in depth with the examples of climate change, obesity, retirement savings, and pollution from plastic waste. We argue that the most important way in which behavioral scientists can contribute to public policy is by employing their skills to develop and implement value-creating system-level change.
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