Kai Ruggeri
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 255309 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kai Ruggeri |
| PRENOMES | Kai |
| SOBRENOME | Ruggeri |
| ASSINATURA | RUGGERI K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8470-101X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Robustness of Mental Accounting Across 21 Countries
First introduced four decades ago, the influential concept of mental accounting—how people mentally organize, evaluate, and track financial activities—posits that consumers often defy traditional economic rationality, treating money as non-fungible across discrete mental accounts. In this research, we present the first large-scale test of the replicability and generalizability of mental accounting effects, using a sample of 5,589 participants fro…
Longitudinal Assessment of Financial Well-Being Across Europe Confirms the Multidimensionality of the Construct
Assessing evidence based on scale can be a useful predictor of policy outcomes
A 27-country test of communicating the scientific consensus on climate change
Communicating the scientific consensus that human-caused climate change is real increases climate change beliefs, worry and support for public action in the United States. In this preregistered experiment, we tested two scientific consensus messages, a classic message on the reality of human-caused climate change and an updated message additionally emphasizing scientific agreement that climate change is a crisis. Across online convenience samples…
Unstandard Deviation
Behavioral science is increasingly used in public policy to understand and address various manifestations of inequalities. Yet evidence from effective population-level interventions is limited. One framework, known as positive deviance, emphasizes individuals from disadvantaged circumstances who have significantly better outcomes than are typical for their group. Studying their behaviors and outcomes helps to understand what might explain their o…
Role of Military Forces in the New York State Response to Covid-19
Because of the role of states in delivering relief, testing, care, vaccination, and other community support during the COVID-19 pandemic, this article illuminates the role of New York military forces in responding to COVID-19. The aim is to provide details for the public health community, as well as to share lessons for the continued mission and future pandemic responses
The elements of choice
While creating unprecedented challenges for societies writ large, the past few years have also been a remarkable era for landmark boost in the writing of value to behavioral scientists. This has occurred through broad media coverage of behavioral policies, new textbooks proliferating along with a growing number of higher education courses on the subject, and increased recognition in government and science. Without a doubt, it is clearly a period …
The globalizability of temporal discounting
Economic inequality is associated with preferences for smaller, immediate gains over larger, delayed ones. Such temporal discounting may feed into rising global inequality, yet it is unclear whether it is a function of choice preferences or norms, or rather the absence of sufficient resources for immediate needs. It is also not clear whether these reflect true differences in choice patterns between income groups. We tested temporal discounting an…
Mental health and decisions under risk among refugees and the public in Lebanon
Lebanon is rapidly adapting public services to meet local needs as well as those of refugees from conflict regions such as Syria. However, these challenges are complicated by high volumes of individuals with poor mental health, who are also at risk of poor decision-making and may avoid the use of health services due to low trust in government institutions, among other reasons. Over 700 individuals residing in Lebanon, including Lebanese nationals…
Boosting promotes advantageous risk-taking
Due to the prevalence and importance of choices with uncertain outcomes, it is essential to establish what interventions improve risky decision-making, how they work, and for whom. Two types of low-intensity behavioural interventions are promising candidates: nudges and boosts. Nudges guide people to better decisions by altering how a choice is presented, without restricting any options or modifying the underlying payoff matrix. Boosts, on the ot…
The general fault in our fault lines
Well-being is more than happiness and life satisfaction
A behavioral approach to personalizing public health
Behavioral policies are increasingly popular in a number of health care contexts. However, evidence of their effectiveness, specifically in low-income and highly disadvantaged populations, is limited. Some positive effects have been found for adaptive interventions, which merge more personalized approaches with advances in data collection and modern analytical methods. These approaches have only recently become feasible, as their implementation r…
Replicating patterns of prospect theory for decision under risk
Depressive Symptoms and Sexually Transmitted Disease
Nudging intrinsic motivation in environmental risk and social policy
Public and private institutions implement behavioral insights into policies to manage risks associated with environmental and social challenges. However, many such policies rely on providing external incentives, which inhibits sustained behavior change. We propose that message framing can be used to leverage intrinsic motivation toward pro-environmental and pro-social behaviors. Designing messages to raise feelings of autonomous choice has been s…
The Cost-Effectiveness of Lowering Permissible Noise Levels Around U.S. Airports
Aircraft noise increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases and mental illness. The allowable limit for sound in the vicinity of an airport is 65 decibels (dB) averaged over a 24-h 'day and night' period (DNL) in the United States. We evaluate the trade-off between the cost and the health benefits of changing the regulatory DNL level from 65 dB to 55 dB using a Markov model. The study used LaGuardia Airport (LGA) as a case study. In compliance w…
Single parents and employment in Europe
This paper examines the key characteristics of single parents through descriptive and comparative perspectives. Our analyses suggest that the experiences and needs of single-parent households differ according to the age of both the parent and child, and that the vast majority of such households are single-mother households. The analysis shows that younger mothers and mothers with young children are the least-employed parent groups, and that this …
MHealth and global mental health
BACKGROUND: Two phenomena have become increasingly visible over the past decade: the significant global burden of disease arising from mental illness and the rapid acceleration of mobile phone usage in poorer countries. Mental ill-health accounts for a significant proportion of global disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and years lived with disability (YLDs), especially in poorer countries where a number of factors combine to exacerbate issues…
Statistics anxiety, state anxiety during an examination, and academic achievement
BackgroundA large proportion of students identify statistics courses as the most anxiety-inducing courses in their curriculum. Many students feel impaired by feelings of state anxiety in the examination and therefore probably show lower achievements.AimsThe study investigates how statistics anxiety, attitudes (e.g., interest, mathematical self-concept) and trait anxiety, as a general disposition to anxiety, influence experiences of anxiety as wel…
The general fault in our fault lines
Replicating patterns of prospect theory for decision under risk
The globalizability of temporal discounting
Economic inequality is associated with preferences for smaller, immediate gains over larger, delayed ones. Such temporal discounting may feed into rising global inequality, yet it is unclear whether it is a function of choice preferences or norms, or rather the absence of sufficient resources for immediate needs. It is also not clear whether these reflect true differences in choice patterns between income groups. We tested temporal discounting an…
Nudging intrinsic motivation in environmental risk and social policy
Public and private institutions implement behavioral insights into policies to manage risks associated with environmental and social challenges. However, many such policies rely on providing external incentives, which inhibits sustained behavior change. We propose that message framing can be used to leverage intrinsic motivation toward pro-environmental and pro-social behaviors. Designing messages to raise feelings of autonomous choice has been s…
A behavioral approach to personalizing public health
Behavioral policies are increasingly popular in a number of health care contexts. However, evidence of their effectiveness, specifically in low-income and highly disadvantaged populations, is limited. Some positive effects have been found for adaptive interventions, which merge more personalized approaches with advances in data collection and modern analytical methods. These approaches have only recently become feasible, as their implementation r…
A 27-country test of communicating the scientific consensus on climate change
Communicating the scientific consensus that human-caused climate change is real increases climate change beliefs, worry and support for public action in the United States. In this preregistered experiment, we tested two scientific consensus messages, a classic message on the reality of human-caused climate change and an updated message additionally emphasizing scientific agreement that climate change is a crisis. Across online convenience samples…
Statistics anxiety, state anxiety during an examination, and academic achievement
BackgroundA large proportion of students identify statistics courses as the most anxiety-inducing courses in their curriculum. Many students feel impaired by feelings of state anxiety in the examination and therefore probably show lower achievements.AimsThe study investigates how statistics anxiety, attitudes (e.g., interest, mathematical self-concept) and trait anxiety, as a general disposition to anxiety, influence experiences of anxiety as wel…
Statistics anxiety, state anxiety during an examination, and academic achievement
BackgroundA large proportion of students identify statistics courses as the most anxiety-inducing courses in their curriculum. Many students feel impaired by feelings of state anxiety in the examination and therefore probably show lower achievements.AimsThe study investigates how statistics anxiety, attitudes (e.g., interest, mathematical self-concept) and trait anxiety, as a general disposition to anxiety, influence experiences of anxiety as wel…
Single parents and employment in Europe
This paper examines the key characteristics of single parents through descriptive and comparative perspectives. Our analyses suggest that the experiences and needs of single-parent households differ according to the age of both the parent and child, and that the vast majority of such households are single-mother households. The analysis shows that younger mothers and mothers with young children are the least-employed parent groups, and that this …
MHealth and global mental health
BACKGROUND: Two phenomena have become increasingly visible over the past decade: the significant global burden of disease arising from mental illness and the rapid acceleration of mobile phone usage in poorer countries. Mental ill-health accounts for a significant proportion of global disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and years lived with disability (YLDs), especially in poorer countries where a number of factors combine to exacerbate issues…
The Cost-Effectiveness of Lowering Permissible Noise Levels Around U.S. Airports
Aircraft noise increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases and mental illness. The allowable limit for sound in the vicinity of an airport is 65 decibels (dB) averaged over a 24-h 'day and night' period (DNL) in the United States. We evaluate the trade-off between the cost and the health benefits of changing the regulatory DNL level from 65 dB to 55 dB using a Markov model. The study used LaGuardia Airport (LGA) as a case study. In compliance w…
Nudging intrinsic motivation in environmental risk and social policy
Public and private institutions implement behavioral insights into policies to manage risks associated with environmental and social challenges. However, many such policies rely on providing external incentives, which inhibits sustained behavior change. We propose that message framing can be used to leverage intrinsic motivation toward pro-environmental and pro-social behaviors. Designing messages to raise feelings of autonomous choice has been s…
Depressive Symptoms and Sexually Transmitted Disease
Well-being is more than happiness and life satisfaction
A behavioral approach to personalizing public health
Behavioral policies are increasingly popular in a number of health care contexts. However, evidence of their effectiveness, specifically in low-income and highly disadvantaged populations, is limited. Some positive effects have been found for adaptive interventions, which merge more personalized approaches with advances in data collection and modern analytical methods. These approaches have only recently become feasible, as their implementation r…
Replicating patterns of prospect theory for decision under risk
Mental health and decisions under risk among refugees and the public in Lebanon
Lebanon is rapidly adapting public services to meet local needs as well as those of refugees from conflict regions such as Syria. However, these challenges are complicated by high volumes of individuals with poor mental health, who are also at risk of poor decision-making and may avoid the use of health services due to low trust in government institutions, among other reasons. Over 700 individuals residing in Lebanon, including Lebanese nationals…
Boosting promotes advantageous risk-taking
Due to the prevalence and importance of choices with uncertain outcomes, it is essential to establish what interventions improve risky decision-making, how they work, and for whom. Two types of low-intensity behavioural interventions are promising candidates: nudges and boosts. Nudges guide people to better decisions by altering how a choice is presented, without restricting any options or modifying the underlying payoff matrix. Boosts, on the ot…
The general fault in our fault lines
Unstandard Deviation
Behavioral science is increasingly used in public policy to understand and address various manifestations of inequalities. Yet evidence from effective population-level interventions is limited. One framework, known as positive deviance, emphasizes individuals from disadvantaged circumstances who have significantly better outcomes than are typical for their group. Studying their behaviors and outcomes helps to understand what might explain their o…
Role of Military Forces in the New York State Response to Covid-19
Because of the role of states in delivering relief, testing, care, vaccination, and other community support during the COVID-19 pandemic, this article illuminates the role of New York military forces in responding to COVID-19. The aim is to provide details for the public health community, as well as to share lessons for the continued mission and future pandemic responses
The elements of choice
While creating unprecedented challenges for societies writ large, the past few years have also been a remarkable era for landmark boost in the writing of value to behavioral scientists. This has occurred through broad media coverage of behavioral policies, new textbooks proliferating along with a growing number of higher education courses on the subject, and increased recognition in government and science. Without a doubt, it is clearly a period …
The globalizability of temporal discounting
Economic inequality is associated with preferences for smaller, immediate gains over larger, delayed ones. Such temporal discounting may feed into rising global inequality, yet it is unclear whether it is a function of choice preferences or norms, or rather the absence of sufficient resources for immediate needs. It is also not clear whether these reflect true differences in choice patterns between income groups. We tested temporal discounting an…
A 27-country test of communicating the scientific consensus on climate change
Communicating the scientific consensus that human-caused climate change is real increases climate change beliefs, worry and support for public action in the United States. In this preregistered experiment, we tested two scientific consensus messages, a classic message on the reality of human-caused climate change and an updated message additionally emphasizing scientific agreement that climate change is a crisis. Across online convenience samples…
Longitudinal Assessment of Financial Well-Being Across Europe Confirms the Multidimensionality of the Construct
Assessing evidence based on scale can be a useful predictor of policy outcomes
The Robustness of Mental Accounting Across 21 Countries
First introduced four decades ago, the influential concept of mental accounting—how people mentally organize, evaluate, and track financial activities—posits that consumers often defy traditional economic rationality, treating money as non-fungible across discrete mental accounts. In this research, we present the first large-scale test of the replicability and generalizability of mental accounting effects, using a sample of 5,589 participants fro…
Psychology (13 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Computer Science (9 obras) · Economics (9 obras) · Medicine (9 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · Psychological intervention (7 obras) · Psychiatry (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Public health (5 obras)