en route to #sjdm at #nyc !! Looking forward to meeting brilliant colleagues and hearing about great research!

Do you think this would work for other, real-life, situations? I think it can have important implications, such as when asking people to schedule a medical exam they're not keen to do.

Specifically, we found that giving the option to delay reduces the percent of people that object to the task, without affecting the rate of those who are willing to do it. Moreover, those that choose the delay option are mostly likely to do the task when prompted again later.

“Protect Me Tomorrow”: Commitment Nudges to Remedy Compromised Passwords | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Internet users often neglect important security actions (e.g., installing security updates or changing passwords) because they interrupt users’ main task at inopportune times. Commitment devices, such...

How can you get people to do unwanted tasks, such as changing a password, when they don't have to? In a recent research we found that giving people the option to delay the task (e.g., for tomorrow) can really help! check it out here -
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Thanks Dan, I would be happy to be added !