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Look at this.
It's a tiger.
Wait, no, it's not a tiger.
It's just a breaking news alert.
What is this breaking news alert?
Oh, the breaking news alert is about Kim Kardashian.
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How do you get someone to change their behavior?
I recycled my can of Diet Pepsi, and now I've checked off be a good environmental citizen for the day.
Angela, for the last few years, we've all spent time sitting at home as Covid has been raging and thinking about all of the different ways that the public has been receiving messages from the government, from the WHO, from all of these public health organizations about what we're supposed to be doing, how we're supposed to be doing it.
And this is something that we should be paying attention to because people are changing the way they talk about it.
They are changing the language about it.
They are changing the thinking about it.
And along with that, they're changing how they're communicating to the public.
And some of these communication decisions, you know, should you mask what about vaccines?
It's really made me think about the classic social psychology work of Richard Thaler about nudges and what's actually the best way to make good decisions.