What is *The Smarter Screen* by Shlomo Benartzi about?

*The Smarter Screen* explores how digital interfaces reshape decision-making, combining behavioral economics and psychology to explain why people behave differently online. Benartzi reveals how screen-based choices—from healthcare.gov to retirement plans—are influenced by design quirks like "attentional magnets" and offers strategies to create better digital experiences.

Who should read *The Smarter Screen*?

Designers, marketers, and policymakers will gain actionable insights into optimizing digital interfaces. Entrepreneurs and behavioral science enthusiasts will benefit from its research-backed frameworks, like using "digital nudges" to guide user behavior ethically. Anyone curious about why online decisions often defy logic will find its case studies illuminating.

What are the key ideas in *The Smarter Screen*?

Key concepts include: - **Attentional magnets**: Elements (e.g., auto-play videos) that hijack focus - **Naïve diversification**: How users default to evenly distributed choices in grids - **Myopic digital loss aversion**: Overreacting to short-term losses (e.g., cart abandonment) Benartzi argues these quirks require redesigned interfaces that account for "predictably irrational" behavior.

How does *The Smarter Screen* apply to real-world problems?

The book demonstrates how minor design changes can boost outcomes: - Simplifying healthcare.gov increased insurance enrollment - Gamified savings apps improved retirement planning - Default opt-ins increased organ donor registrations These examples show how aligning interfaces with behavioral principles drives better decisions.

What criticized aspects of *The Smarter Screen* should readers consider?

Some argue Benartzi underestimates dark patterns (manipulative designs) and overemphasizes individual responsibility over systemic fixes. Critics note the 2015 publication predates AI-driven personalization, though its core behavioral principles remain relevant.

How does *The Smarter Screen* relate to Shlomo Benartzi’s other work?

It expands on his retirement savings research (e.g., Save More Tomorrow) into digital contexts. Like his book *Thinking Smarter*, it bridges academic insights and practical tools but focuses specifically on screen-based choice architecture.

Why is *The Smarter Screen* relevant in 2025?

With AI personalizing interfaces at scale, Benartzi’s frameworks help audit algorithms for behavioral ethics. His "attentional audits" are now used to reduce doomscrolling and improve digital wellness tools, making the book a precursor to modern UX ethics debates.

What famous quotes come from *The Smarter Screen*?

Notable lines include: - "Screens don’t just show information—they shape it" - "Every pixel is a choice architect" - "The best interface is one that helps people fail less" These emphasize design’s invisible influence on decisions.

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第 1 章

The Digital Mind: How Screens Are Reshaping Our Decision-Making

The moment you pick up your smartphone, your brain begins to change. Within milliseconds, your visual system prioritizes the center of the screen while ignoring the edges. Your attention narrows, your thinking accelerates, and your decision-making shifts toward the impulsive. This transformation happens so quickly and subtly that you never notice it happening-yet it fundamentally alters how you process information and make choices. This cognitive shift represents one of the most significant behavioral revolutions in human history. With Americans checking their phones 150 times daily and spending over 10 hours daily on screens, we're making more decisions through digital interfaces than ever before. The implications are profound: people order higher-calorie pizzas online than in person, score lower on computerized tests than paper ones, and make dramatically different financial choices on smartphones versus desktops. Shlomo Benartzi's groundbreaking work reveals how the digital revolution has created both unprecedented challenges and extraordinary opportunities. As screens become our primary decision-making environment, understanding the psychology behind our digital behavior has become essential not just for tech companies but for anyone hoping to navigate our increasingly screen-mediated world.

第 2 章

When Information Becomes a Firehose: The Attention Economy

The digital revolution has created a fundamental mismatch between the vast information displayed on our screens and our limited mental capacity to process it. This gap explains why Online Travel Agencies like Expedia can charge hotels 25% commissions despite offering less personalized service than traditional agents who charged just 10%. They've built billion-dollar businesses by helping overwhelmed consumers navigate excessive choice. This pattern exists across the digital landscape because information has transformed from a trickle to a firehose. While we once struggled to find information about hotels, we now face millions of search results. This abundance creates what economist Herbert Simon called "a poverty of attention." Our minds have fixed constraints regardless of information flow, making human attention "the sweet crude oil of the twenty-first century." These cognitive limitations were first identified by George Miller in 1956, suggesting we can remember only "seven, plus or minus two" pieces of information simultaneously. Later research by Nelson Cowan reduced this to just four items. These constraints profoundly affect decision-making. In Baba Shiv's experiment, 63% of subjects trying to remember seven digits chose cake over fruit, versus only 41% remembering two digits. When mentally taxed, we lack resources for self-control. This problem worsens in professional contexts. At Veterans Affairs hospitals, doctors receive over sixty electronic medical alerts daily, with 86.9% reporting the quantity is excessive. This leads to missed test results-about 7-8% of abnormal results lack follow-up within 30 days. Like drinking from a fire hose, information abundance becomes a curse, actually reducing our processing capacity. The solution isn't just adding more eyes but treating attention as a literal resource. While tech companies already barter for our attention with free services, we should value attention for purposes beyond advertising. A UCLA study giving women health-tracking smartphones showed promising results in improving outcomes, suggesting giving away free smartphones in exchange for health-related attention interventions could be cost-effective compared to the massive expenses of medication non-adherence ($100-289 billion annually). Organizations should embrace A/B testing to improve human behavior, not just corporate profits. While companies like Google run thousands of experiments on their search engines, we should extend this experimental approach to apps that improve health or financial decision-making. Understanding the psychology of screens requires experimentation to maximize the impact of our scarce attention.

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第 3 章

Beauty Before Function: How Aesthetics Drive Digital Decisions

Our aesthetic judgments about digital interfaces happen with shocking speed. In experiments by Tractinsky and Lindgaard, people form consistent opinions about a website's visual appeal in just 50 milliseconds-before conscious awareness-and these snap judgments remain unchanged even when given much more viewing time. This reflects our broader tendency to rely on unconscious processing, similar to how we form opinions about strangers' trustworthiness after glimpsing their faces for 100 milliseconds. Screens may be amplifying this instinctive thinking. In a preliminary study at Universal Studios, subjects performed worse on financial reasoning questions when using iPhones (45% correct) compared to paper (57% correct). Web analytics support this acceleration-55% of visitors spend less than fifteen seconds reading online articles. Dating apps like Tinder, processing 1.2 billion swipes daily, capitalize on these quick assessments. If our digital decisions are made in milliseconds, they must be based primarily on aesthetics rather than substance. Computer scientist Katharina Reinecke developed an algorithm to predict website appeal based solely on "colorfulness" and "visual complexity." Her research showed these two factors alone explained 48% of variation in aesthetic preferences. Complexity proved far more influential than color, with users strongly disliking overly complex sites. The sweet spot was moderate complexity (around 4.2 on a nine-point scale), which users found twice as appealing as higher complexity scores. Demographics significantly influenced preferences. Older users preferred more complex, text-heavy sites with less saturated colors, while younger users favored simpler layouts with saturated colors and larger images. Gender affected color preferences-men preferred primary colors on gray/white backgrounds, while women favored homogenous color schemes and pastels. Nationality also mattered, with Mexicans and Chileans preferring twice the complexity of Russians, and Malaysians favoring much more colorful sites than Finns or Germans. Aesthetics dramatically affects our perception of trustworthiness online. Research by Gitte Lindgaard showed that first impressions formed in just fifty milliseconds shape our subsequent trust judgments-prettier websites are deemed more trustworthy, regardless of actual reliability. This "halo effect" has significant consequences, particularly in financial services where only 11% of Americans highly trust their financial institutions. Bank of America's website illustrates common aesthetic problems that may undermine trust: its colorfulness score of 4.09 falls far below the optimal 6.10, it's overly complex (4.80 vs. ideal 4.23), and contains 68 links and fifteen different text blocks with multiple fonts and colors. These flaws likely diminish user trust, potentially contributing to the problem of "unbanked" households who rely on expensive alternatives like payday lenders charging up to 391% annual interest.

第 4 章

Visual Hotspots: How Screen Location Determines Choices

Our visual system contains built-in biases that dramatically influence online behavior. Like the game Battleship, where players tend to guess in the middle of the grid while avoiding edges, our attention naturally gravitates toward the center of screens while neglecting the periphery. This "middle bias" affects many behaviors-radiologists miss objects in the corners of medical images (83% failed to notice a gorilla in a CT scan), intelligence analysts focus on the center of satellite images, and shoppers select products from middle shelves 71% of the time. In the digital world, where attention is scarce, understanding what people notice on screens is crucial. Screen location dramatically influences choice-research shows people look first at the center of displays, especially when presented with multiple options. In one study, subjects were 60% more likely to choose snack foods placed in the center of the screen regardless of their actual preferences. When preferred snacks were placed centrally, subjects found them 91% of the time, versus only 30% when placed elsewhere. Visual prominence also matters-simply increasing the brightness of an item can lead people to choose it over their stated preferences about half the time. These effects intensify during multitasking, suggesting our choices online are often shaped more by perceptual habits than conscious desires. The speed of the digital world amplifies these biases-first fixations occur around 350 milliseconds after exposure, meaning visual systems shape decisions before conscious deliberation begins. Though reading feels smooth and continuous, our eyes actually move in quick jumps called saccades, controlled by unconscious muscle movements. We routinely skip over many words, especially function words like "of" and "the"-one study found we skip 65% of them. These nonrandom eye movements follow predictable patterns that significantly impact how we process information on screens. Even seemingly minor design decisions like arranging options in columns versus rows dramatically alter decision-making. A recent eye-tracking study revealed our strong built-in preference for horizontal eye movements, making information presented in rows more noticeable than in columns. When Dell's website was modified to present computers in horizontal rows rather than columns, users focused more on products than attributes. The eyes essentially choose first, with our attention following their lead. To maximize impact, consider eight key factors: (1) The middle bias makes centrally-placed items more likely to be chosen; (2) When no middle exists, eyes gravitate toward the top-left cell; (3) Cultural differences may affect these patterns-Hebrew readers might prefer top-right; (4) "Cold spots" at screen edges receive six times less attention than central areas; (5) Visual biases may be enhanced on screens; (6) Zooming in creates blind spots by pushing content to ignored edges; (7) Our retinas are programmed for horizontal searching, making information in rows more influential than in columns; (8) Faster decision-making and multitasking strengthen these visual biases.

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第 5 章

The Digital Mirror: How Feedback Shapes Behavior

Wearable fitness devices like the Nike FuelBand promise self-improvement through feedback, but often disappoint. While technical limitations like imprecise measurements and poor battery life exist, the fundamental problem lies in how these devices communicate information. Simply providing feedback isn't enough-bathroom scales give accurate weight readings but haven't solved obesity. The real challenge is designing feedback that actually motivates behavior change. This represents a much larger trend: we're increasingly dependent on screens and machines for feedback about our lives. For the first time in history, we can monitor everything from sleep patterns to calorie intake with unprecedented precision. This "omnipresent mirror" extends beyond self-monitoring to social feedback-we review Uber drivers, Airbnb hosts, professors, and even romantic partners through apps like Lulu, which allows women to anonymously rate men they've dated. Effective feedback is surprisingly difficult to achieve. A meta-analysis by psychologists Kluger and DeNisi examining 607 experiments found that while feedback improved performance on average, it actually worsened outcomes in 38% of cases. Digital feedback follows an inverted U-curve-too little is ineffective, but too much causes people to either tune out or overreact. The sweet spot is providing needed information that wasn't previously available. Mobile financial apps demonstrate this principle effectively. A study of Personal Capital users showed that after downloading the mobile app, users checked their finances 12.47 times monthly (up from 2.14 times), resulting in a 15.7% decrease in monthly spending, primarily in discretionary categories. This impact far exceeds traditional financial education methods-while seminars might increase average savings rates by less than 1%, the simple feedback from an app produced dramatic behavioral changes. While some digital feedback improves behavior, excessive feedback can be counterproductive. Investment portfolio feedback illustrates this problem through "myopic loss aversion"-when investors make poor decisions based on short-term losses despite having long-term investment plans. The frequency of checking market performance dramatically affects perception: daily S&P 500 checks show losses 47% of the time, monthly checks 41%, yearly checks 30%, while decade-long intervals reveal losses only 15% of the time. This frequent feedback leads investors to make conservative choices that hurt long-term returns. Our interactions with screens feel anonymous, creating a "disinhibition effect" that changes our behavior in important ways. Research shows this anonymity makes us more honest-people are 33% more likely to admit binge drinking via text than to a human voice. This candor could help identify excessive drinkers who need intervention. However, screen anonymity has downsides too-people leave nastier comments online, and make unhealthier food choices when ordering from screens rather than humans. A study of 160,000 pizza orders found that online customers chose 33% more toppings and 6% more calories, with bacon sales increasing 20%.

第 6 章

The Power of Difficulty: When Easier Isn't Better

In 1985, psychologist Susan Belmore conducted an experiment comparing reading on paper versus computer screens. Students reading on Apple II Plus computers took 12% longer and understood 47% less compared to those reading on paper. Initially, this was attributed to unfamiliarity with the technology. IBM researchers later confirmed these findings, concluding the problem stemmed from multiple visual factors related to low display resolution. Modern screens have evolved dramatically-from monochrome displays to ones with millions of colors, with pixel counts increasing eightyfold since the original Macintosh. Today's devices even feature custom fonts "hand-tuned at the pixel level." With iPhone resolution now exceeding that of fine printed books (401 DPI versus 300 DPI), one might expect digital reading to have surpassed paper in effectiveness. Yet despite these advancements, the digital reading gap persists. Anne Mangen's 2013 study found tenth graders consistently comprehended less when reading on screens versus paper, regardless of text type. The problem with modern screens may be that they're too good-making reading too easy. While behavioral economists like Richard Thaler champion the "Make it easy" mantra for encouraging desired behaviors, excessive ease can be detrimental to learning and memory. The benefits of ease are clear: Amazon's one-click buying system increases purchases, and auto-filling information on forms dramatically improves completion rates. But for learning and comprehension, perceptual ease can actually hinder retention. The brain simply doesn't work hard enough when processing perfectly rendered text. Research by Connor Diemand-Yauman, Daniel Oppenheimer, and Erikka Vaughan demonstrates that "disfluent" fonts-those harder to read-can significantly improve memory retention. In one experiment, Princeton students reading about fictional alien species in difficult fonts like Comic Sans or Bodoni recalled 86.5% of information correctly, compared to just 72.8% for those reading in standard fonts. The researchers extended this to a real high school setting, changing classroom materials across multiple subjects to disfluent fonts. Students consistently performed better on tests when materials were presented in these harder-to-read formats. The benefit comes not from any magical property of specific fonts, but from their unfamiliarity, which forces deeper processing. As Adam Alter's research shows, disfluency serves as a "meta-cognitive alarm" that signals our brain to slow down and think more carefully. When information is difficult to process, we engage with it more deliberately rather than skimming superficially. Finding the right balance of cognitive difficulty is crucial for digital design. When we want users to complete transactions quickly, fluent designs with easy-to-read fonts like Helvetica are best. However, when retention matters, introducing deliberate disfluency helps people slow down and process information more thoroughly. Companies like Uber demonstrate this balance-their app is mostly sleek and fluent for ease of use, but they've added cognitive friction when explaining surge pricing, forcing users to type the exact multiplier before confirming rides during high-demand periods.

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第 7 章

The Personal Touch: Customizing Digital Experiences

Every morning, I get my daily caffeine fix at a cafe near campus where the baristas recognize my car, prepare my cappuccino in the right-sized mug, and even let me order half a croissant. This mundane example of personalized service makes me feel special, and I'm not alone in valuing such attention. Scientists have measured the benefits of personalization, like in a restaurant experiment where waiters who offered customers a second chocolate with personalized attention received significantly higher tips. Personalization works because it increases our attention in a world saturated with generic content. In a study with schoolchildren playing a math video game, those who received personalized instructions rated the game much higher, were more likely to play longer, and scored 30% better on subsequent tests. Personalization enhances both intrinsic motivation and perceived competence, making us more willing to engage with challenging material. The online world is inherently visual, as screens emphasize looking and we increasingly "think" with our eyes to manage information overload. This makes visual personalization particularly effective. Hal Hershfield's research showed that when people viewed digitally aged versions of themselves, they allocated more than twice as much money to retirement funds compared to those who saw their current selves. In online experiments, participants said they would save approximately 40% more after seeing renderings of their older selves. These personalized visualizations transform abstract concepts into visceral awareness, helping overcome our tendency to discount the future. Another promising approach involves customized videos from companies like Idomoo, which tailor content to individual viewers, combining the scale of broadcast with the effectiveness of one-on-one conversation. These personalized videos have proven remarkably effective-increasing loan applications sevenfold and reducing service center calls by 30%. Just as waiters must time their interruptions perfectly, digital personalization requires delivering messages at precisely the right moment. Research by Dai, Milkman, and Riis reveals "The Fresh Start Effect"-people are significantly more likely to pursue goals after temporal landmarks like the beginning of a week (33.4% more likely to work out) or semester (47.1% increase). Even birthdays trigger a 7.5% increase in gym attendance the following day. The Behavioural Insights Team's "Stoptober" anti-smoking campaign demonstrated that timing affects response rates-morning visitors were 3.8% less likely to sign up, especially when websites contained complex designs. Our scarce morning attention makes us more easily overwhelmed by information-heavy appeals. By optimizing website design for time of day, researchers estimate they can increase sign-ups by 5.9 percentage points-translating to 55,000 additional smokers deciding to quit. Digital personalization offers remarkable cost-effectiveness compared to traditional personalization methods. While offline personalization required hiring and training workers, digital versions provide the same benefits with minimal trade-offs. The return on investment (ROI) for digital personalization is extraordinary-while the Behavioural Insights Team initially aimed for a 10x ROI on their interventions, they've averaged 22x, with some personalization interventions generating nearly 2000x ROI within months.

第 8 章

Designing Better Choices: Digital Choice Architecture

Healthcare.gov's launch was a technological disaster, with less than 1% of users able to complete applications during the first week. Though technical issues were eventually resolved, allowing over eight million enrollments in 2014, the public relations damage was severe. However, the focus on technical problems distracted from a more fundamental issue: whether the site effectively guided users to optimal insurance choices. The core challenge was overwhelming complexity-with 78,000 distinct plans nationwide and individual counties offering hundreds of options (like Florida's Seminole County with 169 plans from eight insurers). Each plan differed across numerous variables: deductibles, co-pays, drug benefits, doctor networks, and quality ratings. Users faced major financial decisions with minimal guidance, leading to confusion and potentially suboptimal choices. Digital platforms offer unprecedented flexibility in categorization, allowing personalized organization of choices unlike physical stores with fixed layouts. While Amazon offers basic filtering options for its 8,000+ coffee beans, these still produce overwhelming results. Effective categorization could automatically generate personalized categories based on purchase history, helping consumers discover relevant options while becoming more satisfied with their choices. The Three-Click Rule (users abandoning sites requiring more than three clicks) proves largely mythical; Joshua Porter's research shows users willingly make up to 25 clicks when they feel progress toward their goal. The key isn't minimizing clicks but ensuring each click feels useful in narrowing choices. Sequential elimination tournaments, like those used at Wimbledon since 1877, offer a surprisingly effective solution to choice overload. Economist Tibor Besedes found that when sixteen complex card decks were presented simultaneously, people selected the optimal deck only 23% of the time. However, when organized as a tournament with four rounds of four options each, success jumped to 48%. This works because our minds can only process limited information simultaneously. For real-world applications like apartment hunting, combining categorization with tournaments could transform online marketplaces. Instead of scrolling through 5,000+ Greenwich Village apartments, users could first filter by personalized preferences, then engage in a tournament with their top sixteen options, comparing four at a time before selecting finalists. This forces meaningful comparison of trade-offs-the essence of good decision making. The problem of postchoice regret-where we question our decisions after making them-can be solved through "choice closure," a psychological process where decision-makers perceive a choice as complete. David Faro's research shows that even minor physical acts like putting a lid over unchosen chocolates or closing a menu can significantly increase satisfaction with choices, especially when selecting from large sets. These closure effects also work digitally-visual cues like stamping alternatives "REJECTED" or drawing lines between chosen and unchosen options can provide the same benefits.

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第 9 章

Thinking Tools: Apps That Improve Decision-Making

Thinking architecture represents a powerful but underutilized approach that creates "checklists for our thoughts" to improve decision-making. Unlike information architecture (which makes relevant information more accessible) or choice architecture (which makes good choices easier), thinking architecture helps us think smarter. Query theory demonstrates how the questions we ask ourselves influence decisions-simply changing the sequence of internal questions can dramatically alter outcomes. For example, asking "Why should I save money?" before "Why shouldn't I save?" can increase retirement savings. A proposed savings app could leverage this by prompting users with these questions when location data shows they're near shopping areas. The British government's organ donation experiment demonstrates the power of asking the right questions-a simple reciprocity prompt ("If you needed an organ transplant would you have one?") increased donor registrations by nearly a third, potentially saving thousands of lives with this minor digital design change. Thinking apps can address common decision-making errors like those made by NFL coaches on fourth downs. A football app could provide quick mathematical analysis of expected outcomes, helping coaches overcome loss aversion and narrow framing. Similarly, a loss aversion calculator can help individuals understand their risk preferences by evaluating their responses to various gambles. This awareness can prevent both excessive caution (avoiding necessary medical treatments) and dangerous risk-taking (investing in dubious stocks). The Retirement Goal Planning System (GPS) app addresses our failure to think comprehensively about life goals-most people miss about half their important goals when listing them independently. By providing structured thinking exercises, these apps can overcome our cognitive laziness and busy schedules, helping us determine what we truly want from life.

第 10 章

Designing for Human Nature: The Path Forward

This book explores how we think on screens-devices that present more information and choices while encouraging faster action than ever before. Rather than viewing this as problematic, there's tremendous opportunity to use behavioral science insights to design digital environments that enhance our thinking. The top ten tools for triggering behavioral change on screens include: (1) factor in the attention environment, (2) use information compression techniques, (3) maximize visceral beauty, (4) err toward simplicity, (5) optimize hotspots, (6) make feedback feel meaningful, (7) use cognitive disfluency to slow thinking, (8) offer manageable consideration sets, (9) create thinking tools, and (10) use science to drive design and A/B testing. By merging technology with psychology, we can design digital environments that amplify our strengths while compensating for our weaknesses. Our shift toward digital interaction represents a remarkable opportunity to rethink human behavior, but we risk squandering this moment by "chasing clicks instead of changing lives." The digital revolution has created both unprecedented challenges and extraordinary opportunities. As screens become our primary decision-making environment, understanding the psychology behind our digital behavior has become essential not just for tech companies but for anyone hoping to navigate our increasingly screen-mediated world. With thoughtful design informed by behavioral science, we can create digital experiences that help people make better decisions and live better lives.

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《智慧屏幕》核心主题

digital choice architecture
attention economy
visual interface psychology
screen-mediated behavior
cognitive load management

《智慧屏幕》经典语录

Your brain begins to change the moment you pick up your smartphone.
Attention [is] the sweet crude oil of the twenty-first century.
When mentally taxed, we lack resources for self-control.
Prettier websites are deemed more trustworthy, regardless of actual reliability.
Our attention naturally gravitates toward the center of screens.

《智慧屏幕》主要人物

Shlomo BenartziAuthor and behavioral economist
Herbert SimonEconomist who identified the poverty of attention
George MillerPsychologist who studied cognitive constraints
Baba ShivResearcher who studied mental tax and self-control
Katharina ReineckeComputer scientist who studied website aesthetics

关于作者

Shlomo Benartzi 是一位行为经济学家，也是《屏幕上的聪明决策：你的业务可以从消费者的在线思维方式中学到什么》（The Smarter Screen: What Your Business Can Learn from the Way Consumers Think Online）一书的作者。他因在心理学、技术和决策科学交叉领域的开创性研究而闻名。

作为加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）安德森管理学院的荣誉教授，以及宾夕法尼亚大学“为了更好的行为改变计划”（Behavior Change for Good Initiative）的杰出高级研究员，Benartzi 与诺贝尔奖得主 Richard Thaler 共同创立了“明天存储更多”（Save More Tomorrow，简称 SMarT）计划——这一行为干预方案目前已融入大多数美国退休计划和联邦政策中。他的研究探索了数字化界面如何重塑选择，并在金融科技、医疗保健和消费者平台中得到了实际应用。

Benartzi 的其他著作，包括《明天存储更多：改善 401(k) 计划的实用行为金融解决方案》（Save More Tomorrow: Practical Behavioral Finance Solutions to Improve 401(k) Plans）和《更聪明地思考：通往充实退休生活……及人生的七个步骤》（Thinking Smarter: Seven Steps to Your Fulfilling Retirement...and Life），进一步巩固了他在行为金融领域的权威地位。作为 Acorns 和 Personal Capital 等公司的资深顾问，他的“数字助推”影响了数百万用户，其中包括使美国购物中心（Mall of America）的退休计划加入率提升了 25 倍。

《屏幕上的聪明决策》将数十年的研究提炼为优化在线参与的可行策略，体现了 Benartzi 通过可扩展的行为解决方案来解决社会挑战的使命。

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In an era of persuasive design, our focus is often hijacked by addictive algorithms. This plan is essential for professionals and students who feel drained by screen time and want to regain cognitive control through practical, science-based interventions.

2 h 18 m•3 章节

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Examine tech's impact on human behavior

This learning plan is essential for anyone seeking to understand how digital technologies are fundamentally reshaping human behavior, society, and consciousness. It's particularly valuable for professionals working in technology, policymakers, educators, and thoughtful citizens who want to critically engage with the ethical and philosophical dimensions of our increasingly AI-driven world. By examining the intersection of psychology, ethics, and technology, learners will gain the analytical tools needed to make informed decisions about technology's role in their lives and society.

5 h 27 m•4 章节

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The Architecture of Better Judgment

In an era of information overload, the ability to filter noise and make sound choices is a critical competitive advantage. This plan is designed for leaders and strategists who need to master their internal psychology and apply logical rigor to unpredictable situations.

1 h 30 m•3 章节

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When Information Becomes a Firehose: The Attention Economy

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The Digital Mirror: How Feedback Shapes Behavior

The Power of Difficulty: When Easier Isn't Better

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The Personal Touch: Customizing Digital Experiences

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Thinking Tools: Apps That Improve Decision-Making

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