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Table 2 Taxonomy of boosts showing examples of boosts referring to three categories: risk literacy boosts, uncertainty management boosts, and motivational boosts

From: Tools for public health policy: nudges and boosts as active support of the law in special situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic

Risk literacy boosts

Uncertainty management boosts

Motivational boosts

1. Graphical representations

1. Simple actuarial inferential methods

1. Expressive writing

2. Experienced-based representations

2. Simple rules of collective intelligence

2. Growth-mindset or sense-of-purpose exercises

3. Representations avoiding biasing framing effects

3. Fast and frugal decision trees, simple heuristics, & procedural routines

3. Attention and attention-state training

4. Brief training in transforming opaque representations

5. Training of general math skills

4. Inoculation strategies

4. Psychological connectedness training

5. Reward-bundling exercises

6. Implementation intentions & other use of automatic processes

7. Precommitment strategies

8. Self-control strategies

  1. This taxonomy is based on Hertwig & GrĂŒne-Yanoff [15], and further developed as suggested by Kozyreva et al. [19]