Alcohol Issues - Sludges and Dark Nudges in Big Alcohol's CSR Campaigns

Alcohol Issues - Episode 7

Sludges and Dark Nudges in Big Alcohol's CSR Campaigns

Movendi International's weekly conversation about the latest alcohol issues in policy and science and new alcohol industry revelations.

In-depth conversation For this seventh episode, we are talking with Nason Maani and May van Schalkwyk. Nason is a Harkness Fellow at the Boston University School of Public Health and an Assistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. May is a public health doctor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. They are two of the authors of a highly important and innovative research article that we have discussed on the podcast previously. Their paper is called “Dark Nudges and Sludge in Big Alcohol: Behavioral Economics, Cognitive Biases, and Alcohol Industry Corporate Social Responsibility”.

The conversation with Nason and May was even joined by Kristina Sperkova, the President of Movendi International and a studied psychologist.

In our conversation with May and Nason, we talk about the findings of their research and what the findings mean in the larger context of social norms and healthy environments and behaviors.

Their research is innovative because it applies well-studied concepts of behavioral economics and how human psychology works to the field of prevention and reduction of alcohol harms. In discussing with May and Nason, we learn how the alcohol industry deliberately exploits cognitive biases and we get to understand better how information and campaigns to increase recognition of alcohol harms could be designed.

With May and Nason, we enjoyed a mind-blowing conversation about how the human mind works, how the alcohol industry exploits this and about what could be done to better promote health and well-being in an evidence-based way.

Weekly alcohol issues highlights

This week we highlight two alcohol issues that we think deserve special attention.

In policy and science news, we talk about the latest Global Burden of Disease study, its key findings and what they mean for alcohol policy-making.

And in the Big Alcohol Watch we discuss evidence from Ireland about the child rights harm due to alcohol and the delay in implementing the Public Health Alcohol Act.

Resources for the conversation with May and Nason Follow May on Twitter. Follow Nason on Twitter.

1. Dark Nudges and Sludge in Big Alcohol: Behavioral Economics, Cognitive Biases, and Alcohol Industry Corporate Social Responsibility Read more here...

2. Find the video here...

Resources for the weekly alcohol issues update

1. Landmark Study Shows Failure in Tackling Preventable Disease

   Read more here...

2. Ireland: Alcohol Is Widespread, Pervasive in Children’s Lives

   Read the research article here...

For feedback, questions and suggestions of future topics, please get in touch at: info@movendi.ngo And here is the Alcohol Issues Newsletter for week 43.