The Smarter Screen by Shlomo Benartzi

The Smarter Screen by Shlomo Benartzi

A leading behavioral economist reveals the tools that will improve our decision making on screens

Office workers spend the majority of their waking hours staring at screens. Unfortunately, few of us are aware of the visual biases and behavioral patterns that influence our thinking when we're on our laptops, iPads, smartphones, or smartwatches. The sheer volume of information and choices available online, combined with the ease of tapping buy, often make for poor decision making on screens.

In The Smarter Screen, behavioral economist Shlomo Benartzi reveals a tool kit of interventions for the digital age. Using engaging reader exercises and provocative case studies, Benartzi shows how digital designs can influence our decision making on screens in all sorts of surprising ways.

For example:
- You're more likely to add bacon to your pizza if you order online.
- If you read this book on a screen, you're less likely to remember its content.
- You might buy an item just because it's located in a screen hot spot, even if better options are available.
- If you shop using a touch screen, you'll probably overvalue the product you're considering.
- You're more likely to remember a factoid like this one if it's displayed in an ugly, difficult-to-read font.

Drawing on the latest research on digital nudging, Benartzi reveals how we can create an online world that helps us think better, not worse.

Shlomo Benartzi is a professor and cochair at the Behavioral Decision-Making Group of the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He is also the chief behavioral economist for the Allianz Global Investors Center for Behavioral Finance. Benartzi co-created with Richard Thaler the acclaimed Save More Tomorrow(TM) program, which makes it easy for employees to increase their retirement saving rate. The program is used by more than half of the large employers in the United States and has likely helped millions of American workers boost their retirement savings. Similar programs are gaining momentum globally, including in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.

Roger Lewin, PhD, is the author of more than twenty trade books, including the acclaimed Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos, and has been a collaborative author of more than half a dozen books in the areas of anthropology, cosmology, animal cognition, and behavioral economics.

The Allianz Global Investors Center for Behavioral Finance is committed to empowering people to make better financial decisions. For more information, visit befi.allianzgi.com.

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ISBN 13	9781591847861
ISBN 10	1591847869
Title	The Smarter Screen
Author	Shlomo Benartzi
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2015-10-06
Number of pages	256
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