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=== Incentives === Paying people for optimal behavior through bonuses or by providing discounts (e.g., to exercise, to take their medication, to trade in fuel inefficient vehicles such as the "cash for clunkers" program). Taxing people for suboptimal behavior (e.g., drinking soda, smoking tobacco, and weed).
=== Nudges === Using default effect to nudge people towards decisions optimal for the decision maker or society. Commitment devices that makes it more costly to make suboptimal decisions (e.g., Schwartz et al., 2014). Reframing choice options in ways that make important attributes salient. Labeling hamburger meat 25% fat, for example, makes people more sensitive to fat content than labeling it 75% lean. Presenting information in formats that make critical information easier to evaluate, such as displaying nutritional value using a "traffic light" system.
=== Training === Providing people with personalized feedback regarding the direction and degree to which they exhibit bias. Teaching a "consider-the-alternative" strategy, such as considering a plausible alternative reason for an event than cause one suspects. Teaching people statistical reasoning and normative rules of which they are unaware. Encouraging people to take the perspective of a person who will experience the consequences of their decision can reduce bias. Participants who were shown a "morphed" image of their face to resemble themselves upon retirement were more likely to save money for the future rather than elect to receive it in the present. Encourage, incentivize, or make mandatory the use of reference class forecasting. Reference class forecasting was made mandatory in Great Britain and Denmark for large government infrastructure projects with the explicit purpose of eliminating optimism bias.
== See also == Cognitive bias mitigation Cognitive bias modification Cognitive vulnerability Reference class forecasting
== References ==