[FRIAM] Pro-Sociality, self-organization and nudge theory

[Steven A Smith]

Pro-Sociality, self organization and Nudge theory

It seems that Nudge Theory is getting a little bit of a bad rep due to
the UK's appeal/deference to it in their aborted "herd immunity"
strategy...   and while it may have been misapplied or presumed to be
"enough" when it was patently not, I don't think that negates the value
of distributed intelligence/action and the implications for collective
self-organization for the greater good.  

I was not aware of "Nudging" as a formal thing until last Autumn as I
was prepping for Merle's meeting in Stockholm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory

I'm a (over?)zealous believer in self-organized, distributed solutions
to problems, so as always, "a grain of salt"... 

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_can_we_cooperate_when_the_pandemic_is_driving_us_apart

https://blog.scielo.org/en/2020/03/31/mental-health-why-it-still-matters-in-the-midst-of-a-pandemic-originally-published-in-braz-j-psychiatry/#.Xoi_pdNKit8