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Nudge

A nudge is a small change in how choices are presented that steers behavior without banning options or changing incentives.

Examples include automatically enrolling employees in retirement savings (with opt-out) or placing healthy food at eye level. Nudges work with predictable biases to improve decisions while preserving freedom of choice.

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