Leslie K. John

TL;DR: The use of economic incentives produced significant weight loss during the 16 weeks of intervention that was not fully sustained, and incentive participants weighed significantly less at 7 months than at the study start.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a field experiment informed by behavioral economics and decision research to investigate individual privacy valuations and find evidence of endowment and order effects, which highlight the sensitivity of privacy valuation to contextual, nonnormative factors.

TL;DR: In this article, consumer decisions to reveal or withhold information and the relationship between such decisions and objective hazards posed by information revelation were analyzed in four experiments and found that disclosure of private information is responsive to environmental cues that bear little connection, or are even inversely related, to objective hazards.

TL;DR: The effect estimate from the meta-analysis suggests that financial incentives increase exercise session attendance for interventions up to 6 months in duration, and assured, or "sure thing," incentives and objective behavioral assessment in particular appear to moderate incentive effectiveness.