07 - Papers v2

Question 1

Frederiks, E. R., Stenner, K., & Hobman, E. V. (2015). Household energy use: Applying behavioural economics to understand consumer decision-making and behaviour
(THEORIES)

Answer 1

• Status quo bias
• Satisfying rather than optimizing
• Loss aversion
• Risk aversion
• Recover losses (sunk cost effect)
• Temporal discounting (now > future)
• Social comparisons
• Motivated by rewards and incentives
• Free-riding effect

Question 2

Frederiks, E. R., Stenner, K., & Hobman, E. V. (2015). Household energy use: Applying behavioural economics to understand consumer decision-making and behaviour
(EXPERIMENTS)

Answer 2

No, they draw on existing literature. Behavioral and psychological phenomenon

Question 3

Frederiks, E. R., Stenner, K., & Hobman, E. V. (2015). Household energy use: Applying behavioural economics to understand consumer decision-making and behaviour
(RESTULS)

Answer 3

• Status quo bias
• Satisfying rather than optimizing
• Loss aversion
• Risk aversion
• Recover losses (sunk cost effect)
• Temporal discounting (now > future)
• Social comparisons
• Motivated by rewards and incentives
• Free-riding effect

Question 4

Griffiths, P. E., and C. West. “A balanced intervention ladder: promoting autonomy through public health action”
(THEORIES)

Answer 4

• A balanced intervention ladder

Question 5

Griffiths, P. E., and C. West. “A balanced intervention ladder: promoting autonomy through public health action.
(EXPERIMENT)

Answer 5

NOOOO

Question 6

Griffiths, P. E., and C. West. “A balanced intervention ladder: promoting autonomy through public health action”
(RESUTLS)

Answer 6

Propose a balanced ladder:
\+4 : enable choice
\+3: ensure choice is available
\+2: educate for autonomy
\+1: Provide information
0: Changing default
0: Do nothing
-1: Guide through incentives
-2: Guide through disincentives
-3: Restrict choice
-4: Eliminate choice

Question 7

Chandon, Pierre, and Brian Wansink. “Does food marketing need to make us fat? A review and solutions.” Nutrition reviews 70.10 (2012)
(THEORIES)

Answer 7

• Vice foods

- Virtue foods

Question 8

Chandon, Pierre, and Brian Wansink. “Does food marketing need to make us fat? A review and solutions.” Nutrition reviews 70.10 (2012)
(EXPERIMENT)

Answer 8

NOOOOOOO

Question 9

Chandon, Pierre, and Brian Wansink. “Does food marketing need to make us fat? A review and solutions.” Nutrition reviews 70.10 (2012)
(RESULTS)

Answer 9

How food marketing made us fat:

• increased access to cheaper, bigger and tastier calorie dense food
• research overestimate the effects of nutrition information
• underestimation of the impact of peripheral factors and mindless/habitual behavior