THE ETHICS OF 'NUDGING'.

Aust Nurs Midwifery J

Published: December 2016

Over the past several years increasing attention has been given to the social engineering process of 'nudging' (also called 'choice architecture') and its impact as a mechanism designed to deliberately manipulate and incentivise people to think and act in a presumably beneficial direction.

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