Behavioral economists acknowledge several concerns regarding behaviorally based interventions, including the potential for unexamined paternalistic attitudes, small effect sizes in studies, the distraction from necessary system-level policy changes, the exploitation of behavioral insights by private agents in political and commercial marketing, the exacerbation of societal disparities, and a lack of representativeness in research samples.

Authors

• Person: Beatty A, Moffitt R, Buttenheim A Organization: National Academies Press
  Development of Behavioral Economics - NCBI - NIH

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• Development of Behavioral Economics - NCBI - NIH www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Beatty A, Moffitt R, Buttenheim A · National Academies Press via serper

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• behavioral economics concept