{"id":13241,"date":"2009-06-09T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/using_psychology_to_save_you_from_yourself\/"},"modified":"2009-06-09T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T02:00:00","slug":"using_psychology_to_save_you_from_yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13241","title":{"rendered":"Using Psychology To Save You From Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In the city of Greensboro, N.C., there&#8217;s a program designed for teenage mothers. To prevent these teens from having another child, the city offers each of them $1 a day for every day they are not pregnant. It turns out that the psychological power of that small daily payment is huge. A single dollar a day is enough to push the rate of teen pregnancy down, saving all the incredible costs \u201d\u201d human and financial \u201d\u201d that go with teen parenting.<\/p>\n<p>Cass Sunstein, President Obama&#8217;s pick to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, is a vocal supporter of the program, because it&#8217;s an economic policy that shapes itself around human psychology. Sunstein is just one of a number of high-level appointees now working in the Obama administration who favors this kind of approach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=104803094\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the city of Greensboro, N.C., there&#8217;s a program designed for teenage mothers. To prevent these teens from having another child, the city offers each of them $1 a day for every day they are not pregnant. It turns out<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13241\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,151,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}