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I recently spoke with Margot Sanger-Katz at the New York Times. She’s an awesome healthcare reporter. She wrote a nice piece on some recent nudging research. Here’s the beginning of the artic...

https://www.peterubel.com/nudging-docs-threatening-letters/

Shutterstock If you experience a heart attack, you are probably going to need to take pills to prevent another such attack. People who take beta blockers, aspirin, or cholesterol pills after hear...

https://www.peterubel.com/want-prevent-heart-attacks-perhaps-dont-try-behavioral-economics-intervention/

Shutterstock It has become trendy in health policy circles to believe that behavioral economic interventions are the key to health system improvement. After all, traditional economic intervention...

https://www.peterubel.com/peer-pressure-increase-physician-performance-overrated/

If you use a smaller plate when you eat, you’ll eat less food. Here’s a rather wonky summary of research on plate size, a “meta-analysis” showing that smaller plates mean you put less foo...

https://www.peterubel.com/smaller-plates-less-food/

Warning – the warning labels pictured below are graphic but, according to a recent study, they increase the chances that people will quit smoking. Now we need to find a way to get legal permiss...

https://www.peterubel.com/graphic-cigarette-labels-work/

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, lots of companies are encouraging workers to get biometric screening.  Here’s a picture of that: But is there evidence that this promotes healthier b...

https://www.peterubel.com/know-promote-employee-health/

Losing weight is hard. And keeping it off once you’ve lost it–that’s probably even harder. Just ask Oprah. So maybe those of us who are overweight or obese should simply focus on not gainin...

https://www.peterubel.com/will-take-keep-people-gaining-weight/

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The Journal of the Association for Consumer Research (yes, there is such a thing!) had an outstanding issue dedicated to eating behavior recently. Here is a picture from that issue worth sharing:...

https://www.peterubel.com/behavioral-science-eating-one-picture-2/

Money can undermine our morals.  If you don’t believe me, look what happened to a group of four-through-six-year-olds who were brought in for a simple experiment. Researchers asked them to sor...

https://www.peterubel.com/money-makes-us-behave-good-bad/