Climate nudges : psychological tools to fix a warming planet
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Bein, Eben Eliot Bolte![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/1721.1/106743/969438141-MIT.pdf.jpg?sequence=3&isAllowed=y)
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Psychological tools to fix a warming planet
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Graduate Program in Science Writing.
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Russ Rymer.
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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.
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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."
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2016Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Graduate Program in Science Writing; MIT Program in Writing & Humanistic StudiesPublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Graduate Program in Science Writing.