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What we could get wrong about motivating people

Imagine you are a leader of the group, a CEO of a well-known firm. Your job is to guide people to achieve something together. As a businessman first thing that pops into your head, in order to make people work harder, is the simplest way: I should pay them more. If I want a group […]

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Summer holidays are coming (but not for all of us)

By Francesco Amighetti and Beatrice Del Frate   June has come and, for the majority of college and university students, this means free time that can be spent with families and friends, while being on holidays without studying. Nevertheless, some of them who failed or postponed exams may be worried about their upcoming outcomes, while others […]

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Nudging can be a child’s play…but it’s not!

  A (funny) reflection on the nature of nudging By Francesco Amighetti and Beatrice Del Frate   Nudge interventions take several forms. Sometimes they can be very sophisticated and relying on long and complex empirical studies, sometimes they can be very nice, funny, and easy to implement. Among the nudges of this second kind, it […]

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Good Resolutions and How to Keep Them

By Beatrice Del Frate and Francesco Amighetti Christmas holidays represent a good moment to spend time with family and friends and to escape from routine. After majestic meals and never-ending celebrations, the onset of the new year is always accompanied by a list of desires, very likely the ones we had the previous year. Probably […]