Year: 2022
Type: dissertation
Abstract: We can use heuristics to influence decision-making.These insights have been used for many years in commercial organizations.Consider the pricing of products at 9.99, instead of at 10 euros (Thomas & Morwitz, 2005).These insights have gained attention recently in public administration research and practice.Governments for instance started nudging ACADEMIC RELEVANCEThis dissertation studies how we can use behavioral sciences to support decision-making in the public sector.It contributes to a long tradition of research on decision-making processes in public policy process and service provision (Hill & Varone, 2021).We also join the behavioral public administration stream in explicitly connecting behavioral sciences and public administration.We go beyond current studies in this stream in three ways.First, we emphasize a narrow and broad view of behavioral sciences, and by extension, of behavioral public administration.Currently most literature has focused on identifying We shed light on applications within the public sector in various ways.We map existing nudges that are used on healthcare professionals for evidence-based medicine.By this we make an inventory of nudges in public organizations.This inventory can be used by practitioners wanting to recognize or apply nudging within their own organizations.Next, we develop a low-cost and low-in-intensity debiasing intervention to counter anchoring bias.This goes beyond merely identifying biases that influence public sector workers, which is often done in public administration research (Battaglio et al., 2018).We focus on countering the effect of bias by empirically testing an intervention.If successful, this can be applied in real world instances where anchoring bias is at play.We also show how CHAPTER 2 Nudging healthcare professionals towards evidence-based medicine: A systematic scoping review This chapter is based on the following published article: Nagtegaal, R., Tummers, L., Noordegraaf, M., & Bekkers, V. (2019).Nudging healthcare professionals towards evidence-based medicine: a systematic scoping review.Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, 2(2).The co-author statement can be found in Appendix J.
DOI: 10.33540/1309
Author: Nagtegaal, Rosanna
Language: French
Subfield: General Decision Sciences
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4221114965