Digital boosting toolbox
Long Night of the the Sciences 2022 at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Berlin)
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What is boosting?
Boosting is a policy approach that targets people’s competences and thereby helps people make good, informed decisions by and for themselves. A boost is an intervention that enlists human cognition, the environment, or both to foster people’s existing competences or develop new ones (see Hertwig & Grüne-Yanoff, 2017). Moreover, in contrast to nudges, boosts specifically aim not only to preserve but also to foster and extend human agency and autonomy. Boosts are by necessity transparent because they require an individual’s active cooperation.
This short video from the the Science of boosting website provides a short introduction to boosting.
To learn more abut boosting visit the Science of Boosting website.
Boosting tools against false and misleading information
In online environments, boosting refers to interventions that aim to foster digital competences by providing simple tools that people can employ to verify online information or to build resilience to manipulation.
Lateral reading
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Inoculation (a.k.a. prebunking)
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Debunking
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Self-nudging
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Critical ignoring
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