Climate nudges : psychological tools to fix a warming planet
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969438141-MIT.pdf
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Author(s)
Bein, Eben Eliot Bolte
Advisor(s)
Russ Rymer.
Alternative Title
Psychological tools to fix a warming planet
Date Issued
2016
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
What if, during your next luxuriously long shower, a small device on the showerhead catches your eye? It counts gallons like a stopwatch. As the numbers grow, a cartoon polar bear despairingly watches the iceberg beneath him slowly melt. Small psychological nudges like this have profoundly shaped people's choices in countless fields, from medicine to economics to policy. But can these tiny nudges help us take on the largest problems? Before the Goliath climate change, here stand the pioneers in psychology, economics and energy management, with a behavioral slingshot in hand.
Description
Thesis: S.M. in Science Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities, Graduate Program in Science Writing, 2016.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. "September 2016."
Subjects
Graduate Program in Science Writing.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Graduate Program in Science Writing
MIT Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies
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