{"id":1317,"date":"2010-04-26T13:35:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T19:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2010-05-11T13:58:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T19:58:26","slug":"slate-nudges-gone-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"Slate | Nudges Gone Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/iStock_000003493224XSmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1322\" title=\"iStock_000003493224XSmall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/iStock_000003493224XSmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/iStock_000003493224XSmall.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/iStock_000003493224XSmall-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/iStock_000003493224XSmall-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Psychologists and behavioral economists hope that our tendency to  benchmark our own achievements using the performance of others might  provide a way to encourage Americans to become better citizens. Can the  fear of being below average persuade us to reduce our electricity  consumption, increase our charitable contributions, and otherwise  compete to be better citizens?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2251658\/\">A program designed to reduce energy consumption persuaded some Republicans to consume more. &#8211; By Ray Fisman &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychologists and behavioral economists hope that our tendency to benchmark our own achievements using the performance of others might provide a way to encourage Americans to become better citizens. Can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}