Positive Social Nudge

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There are various ways in which a positive social nudge can be initiated to help individuals experiencing the issues discussed. According to Thaler and Sunstein, social pressures nudge people to accept some pretty odd conclusions (2009). Although the goal is not to get people to accept an odd conclusion, knowing that social pressures have that much effect on an individual if they are creative enough is vital in the implementation of this program. Furthermore, it would be societies place to nudge deviant people to believe that their friends are bad and they should not hang out with them. This can be done in various ways, including having negative stereotypes and public opinions about deviant individuals. In regards to this program, this would …show more content…

Therefore, if the program frames deviant individuals and “everyday” criminals in an unrealistic manor that forces them to believe that majority of the public to thinks negatively of these individuals. This sort of nudge would put pressure on the deviant individual to conform and have a more positive view from their community. For instance, with these individuals believing things such as, more of the public arguing for harsher punishment on not-so-serious crimes, the pressure to conform to the rest of society becomes greater to avoid those beliefs of possible negative sanctions. Also, conformity is an easy to initiate, being that people are likely to do what others are doing around them. Therefore, if you put these deviant individuals around non-deviant individuals they are going to be more likely to …show more content…

In review, it is set to nudge young adults away from those peers engaging in deviant activities and influencing their deviant behavior. In theory, it will work by inducing activities between these individuals and non-deviant peers in the same age proximity. By doing this, those individuals who are use to engaging in deviant behaviors by “following the heard” or making a “default” choice will learn to stop engaging in these deviant behaviors by doing the same thing. Furthermore, they will also learn techniques in which they can redirect their thinking to make better decisions, and will be faced with a “fear” tactic to conform to non-deviant behavior. However, there are some ethical issues that would go along with the possibility of this program. The main ethical issue this program is facing is the implementation of the “fear” tactic. The idea behind this is to persuade individuals to conform to society with false information. Promoting false knowledge is not an acceptable way to help an individual and can cause an individual to have resentment to those giving this knowledge and lash out or rebellion and thus, engaging in more deviant activities than originally engaging in. Furthermore, there might also be concerns regarding the participation of non-deviant individuals. As young

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