Warning: You are about to be nudged

by George Loewenstein, Cindy Bryce, David Hagmann, & Sachin Rajpal
February 15, 2017


Supplemental Material

Author Affiliation

Loewenstein and Hagmann, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University; Bryce, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh; Rajpal, Bethesda, Maryland. Corresponding author’s e-mail: [email protected]

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