Jenny Blumenthal-Barby

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GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · Is nudging patients ethical? Podcast with Jenny Blumenthal-Barby and Scott Halpern · 30 Sep 2021 podcast

Thank you.

I'm gonna let Scott explain what behavioral economics is.

Transparent, a transparent nudge.

Scott is like an expert on behavioral economics in as a field.

So I'm gonna let him explain what it is.

That's right.

Um, so really what the book is about in part is really trying to take seriously the findings from behavioral economics and dis decision psychology about how people really decide.

So one of the things that I talk a lot about in the book are these so-called decisional heuristics and biases.

So decisional heuristics are like shortcuts that people use to make decisions that can create certain cognitive biases.

So, you know, for example, people are more influenced by whatever they hear first.

People are in more influenced by

Uh, as we just talked about norms, like what other people are deciding.

Um, they're most influenced by what's most available in their mind at the moment.

So, like a particular story or case example.

So there's a there's a host of really fascinating findings that are demonstrating the ways that people typically make decisions or things that influence their decisions that really do.

Depart from I think what philosophers and economists have in common, which is to assume a very rational utility maximizing decision maker.

Um, and you know, I the book tries to take seriously what that means for medical ethics, because I think that medical ethics has really inherited a a lot of those norms of the rational, autonomous patient making medical decisions.

So for me, I had the good fortune of meeting a group of researchers at the University of Michigan.

Uh this was at the time their bioethics center was also a decision science center led by Peter Eubel.

And they had a great group of decision scientists there, Brian Zickman Fisher, Angie Fegerwin.

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