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Can Trump resist the power of behavioral science's dark side?

Can Trump resist the power of behavioral science's dark side?

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More than two dozen governments... have a team of behavioral scientists tasked with ... “nudge” their citizens toward what they deem to be higher levels of well-being... “nudges” are value neutral... both achieve altruistic ends or more malicious ones... our environment (and the government) is always exerting some influence on our behavior, so we’re always being nudged...
data can be used to deduce individual’s personality traits and then send them messages ... which are more likely to be persuasive... Bloomberg reported that Cambridge Analytica identified likely Clinton voters ... tried to dissuade them from going to the ballot box.

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