Sanchayan Banerjee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3579795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sanchayan Banerjee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sanchayan |
| FAMILY NAME | Banerjee |
| SIGNATURE | BANERJEE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0176-0429 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Defaults harmonize our food choices – a systematic data review of default effects across socio-demographic groups
Food policy often struggles to reach diverse population groups, and well-intentioned interventions can sometimes exacerbate inequalities along socio-demographic groups. This systematic data review examines whether default nudges in food choices have consistent effects across different socio-demographic groups, or whether their impact varies depending on factors such as education level, age, and gender. After selecting eligible studies, authors fr…
Shaping electricity end-user behaviour for demand response using the COM-B model
Unpacking the side effects of social norm nudges
Recent developments in Behavioural Public Policy
Introduction to IBPPC 2022Behavioural Public Policy (BPP) is an established sub-discipline of public policy.BPP uses insights from behavioural science, broadly defined, to shape and inform public policy.Intersectionality in social sciences research is central to the research agenda of BPP.To this extent, BPP invites diversity in its approach to understand human behaviours and make policy recommendations, from scholars across established disciplin…
It's time we put agency into Behavioural Public Policy
Promoting agency – people's ability to form intentions and to act on them freely – must become a primary objective for Behavioural Public Policy (BPP). Contemporary BPPs do not directly pursue this objective, which is problematic for many reasons. From an ethical perspective, goals like personal autonomy and individual freedom cannot be realised without nurturing citizens’ agency. From an efficacy standpoint, BPPs that override agency – for examp…
Meat taxes are inevitable, yet we seem to shy away from them. But why
Kahneman’s tryst with reasonableness
Kahneman’s criticism of neoclassical rationality was central to his research programme. He argued that rationality understood as temporal consistency among preferences and beliefs is inapt as a descriptive and prescriptive standard of decision-making. Descriptively, consistency ignores high decision costs and biases, such as framing effects. Prescriptively, it is problematic since it neglects the processual nature of choice and the crucial role o…
Nudge or not, university teachers have mixed feelings about online teaching
We designed and administered an online survey experiment to 444 educators in a large social sciences university in the United Kingdom to evaluate their perceptions on the effectiveness of online teaching methods. We find that a nudge, designed to inform educators about the benefits of online teaching, does not improve the personal evaluations of educators in our sample ( n treat = 142, n control = 142) about this new mode of teaching. Overall, mo…
Sustainable dietary choices improved by reflection before a nudge in an online experiment
Behavioural public policies for the social brain
Behavioural public policy is increasingly interested in scaling-up experimental insights to deliver systemic changes. Recent evidence shows some forms of individual behaviour change, such as nudging, are limited in scale. We argue that we can scale-up individual behaviour change by accounting for nuanced social complexities in which human responses to behavioural public policies are situated. We introduce the idea of the ‘social brain’, as a cons…
Public support for ‘soft’ versus ‘hard’ public policies
This article reviews the literature on public support for ‘soft’ versus ‘hard’ policy instruments for behaviour change, and the factors that drive such preferences. Soft policies typically include ‘moral suasion’ and educational campaigns, and more recently behavioural public policy approaches like nudges. Hard policy instruments, such as laws and taxes, restrict choices and alter financial incentives. In contrast to the public support evidenced …
Nudge plus
Nudge plus is a modification of the toolkit of behavioral public policy. It incorporates an element of reflection – the plus – into the delivery of a nudge, either blended in or made proximate. Nudge plus builds on recent work combining heuristics and deliberation. It may be used to design prosocial interventions that help preserve the autonomy of the agent. The argument turns on seminal work on dual systems, which presents a subtler relationship…
Nudge plus
Nudge plus is a modification of the toolkit of behavioral public policy. It incorporates an element of reflection – the plus – into the delivery of a nudge, either blended in or made proximate. Nudge plus builds on recent work combining heuristics and deliberation. It may be used to design prosocial interventions that help preserve the autonomy of the agent. The argument turns on seminal work on dual systems, which presents a subtler relationship…
It's time we put agency into Behavioural Public Policy
Promoting agency – people's ability to form intentions and to act on them freely – must become a primary objective for Behavioural Public Policy (BPP). Contemporary BPPs do not directly pursue this objective, which is problematic for many reasons. From an ethical perspective, goals like personal autonomy and individual freedom cannot be realised without nurturing citizens’ agency. From an efficacy standpoint, BPPs that override agency – for examp…
Sustainable dietary choices improved by reflection before a nudge in an online experiment
Meat taxes are inevitable, yet we seem to shy away from them. But why
Kahneman’s tryst with reasonableness
Kahneman’s criticism of neoclassical rationality was central to his research programme. He argued that rationality understood as temporal consistency among preferences and beliefs is inapt as a descriptive and prescriptive standard of decision-making. Descriptively, consistency ignores high decision costs and biases, such as framing effects. Prescriptively, it is problematic since it neglects the processual nature of choice and the crucial role o…
Public support for ‘soft’ versus ‘hard’ public policies
This article reviews the literature on public support for ‘soft’ versus ‘hard’ policy instruments for behaviour change, and the factors that drive such preferences. Soft policies typically include ‘moral suasion’ and educational campaigns, and more recently behavioural public policy approaches like nudges. Hard policy instruments, such as laws and taxes, restrict choices and alter financial incentives. In contrast to the public support evidenced …
Nudge plus
Nudge plus is a modification of the toolkit of behavioral public policy. It incorporates an element of reflection – the plus – into the delivery of a nudge, either blended in or made proximate. Nudge plus builds on recent work combining heuristics and deliberation. It may be used to design prosocial interventions that help preserve the autonomy of the agent. The argument turns on seminal work on dual systems, which presents a subtler relationship…
Nudge or not, university teachers have mixed feelings about online teaching
We designed and administered an online survey experiment to 444 educators in a large social sciences university in the United Kingdom to evaluate their perceptions on the effectiveness of online teaching methods. We find that a nudge, designed to inform educators about the benefits of online teaching, does not improve the personal evaluations of educators in our sample ( n treat = 142, n control = 142) about this new mode of teaching. Overall, mo…
Sustainable dietary choices improved by reflection before a nudge in an online experiment
Behavioural public policies for the social brain
Behavioural public policy is increasingly interested in scaling-up experimental insights to deliver systemic changes. Recent evidence shows some forms of individual behaviour change, such as nudging, are limited in scale. We argue that we can scale-up individual behaviour change by accounting for nuanced social complexities in which human responses to behavioural public policies are situated. We introduce the idea of the ‘social brain’, as a cons…
Recent developments in Behavioural Public Policy
Introduction to IBPPC 2022Behavioural Public Policy (BPP) is an established sub-discipline of public policy.BPP uses insights from behavioural science, broadly defined, to shape and inform public policy.Intersectionality in social sciences research is central to the research agenda of BPP.To this extent, BPP invites diversity in its approach to understand human behaviours and make policy recommendations, from scholars across established disciplin…
It's time we put agency into Behavioural Public Policy
Promoting agency – people's ability to form intentions and to act on them freely – must become a primary objective for Behavioural Public Policy (BPP). Contemporary BPPs do not directly pursue this objective, which is problematic for many reasons. From an ethical perspective, goals like personal autonomy and individual freedom cannot be realised without nurturing citizens’ agency. From an efficacy standpoint, BPPs that override agency – for examp…
Meat taxes are inevitable, yet we seem to shy away from them. But why
Kahneman’s tryst with reasonableness
Kahneman’s criticism of neoclassical rationality was central to his research programme. He argued that rationality understood as temporal consistency among preferences and beliefs is inapt as a descriptive and prescriptive standard of decision-making. Descriptively, consistency ignores high decision costs and biases, such as framing effects. Prescriptively, it is problematic since it neglects the processual nature of choice and the crucial role o…
Unpacking the side effects of social norm nudges
Defaults harmonize our food choices – a systematic data review of default effects across socio-demographic groups
Food policy often struggles to reach diverse population groups, and well-intentioned interventions can sometimes exacerbate inequalities along socio-demographic groups. This systematic data review examines whether default nudges in food choices have consistent effects across different socio-demographic groups, or whether their impact varies depending on factors such as education level, age, and gender. After selecting eligible studies, authors fr…
Shaping electricity end-user behaviour for demand response using the COM-B model
Psychology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Nudge theory (4 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (3 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Choice architecture (2 works)