Content tagged with "behavioral-economics"
“Another note from Jeff Speck’s book: risk homeostasis, or risk compensation. Risk compensation is a theory which suggests that people typically adjust their behavior in response to the perceived level…”
“I’m reading Walkable City, by Jeff Speck . In it, he talks of ‘induced demand,’ which he says is the thing that everyone in city planning understands but doesn’t talk about. Basically, if you build…”
“I’ve been thinking a quite a bit lately about consequences, and how today’s society tries to qualify everything – ‘well, I know it was against the rules, BUT…’ Brigham Young University recently…”
“The Overjustification Effect: This is a good distillation of what motivates us, and why money isn’t always a good motivator. According to the research, in modern America the average income required to…”