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"From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, a revelatory look at the power and potential of social context. As psychologists have long understood, social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, but often for the worse. Less widely...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Frank, Robert H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Vices.
Social pressure.
Social planning.
Social influence.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General
Planification sociale.
Influence sociale.
Pression sociale.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Introduction. Prologue
  • 1. The argument in brief
  • Part II. Origins of behavioral contagion. 2. How context shapes perception
  • 3. The impulse to conform
  • Part III. Cases. 4. It was, until it wasn't: the dynamics of behavioral contagion
  • 5. The sexual revolution revisited
  • 6. Trust
  • 7. Smoking, eating, and drinking
  • 8. Expenditure cascades
  • 9. The climate crisis
  • Part IV Policy. 10. Should regulators ignore behavioral contagion?
  • 11. Creating more supportive environments
  • 12. The mother of all cognitive illusions
  • 13. Ask, don't tell
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index.

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