16th EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting

Session

Keynote 3 (streamed session)

24 Sept 2025, 16:00

Innere Medizin/2-0 - Hörsaal 22 (Sauerbruchweg 2)

Conveners

Keynote 3 (streamed session): The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray (Nick Chater & George Loewenstein)

• Gregor Burkhart (Principal Scientific Analyst for Prevention, Public Health Unit, European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA), President of the EUSPR (2022-2025))

Description

ONLINE SESSION

316. The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray

George Lowenstein (Carnegie Mellon University), Prof. Nick Chater (University of Warwick)

24/09/2025, 16:00

Oral presentation

An influential line of thinking in behavioral science, to which the two authors have long subscribed, is that many of society's most pressing problems can be addressed cheaply and effectively at the level of the individual, without modifying the system in which the individual operates. We now believe this was a mistake, along with, we suspect, many colleagues in both the academic and policy...