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ArticleNature human behaviour2025

Rethinking behaviour change interventions in policymaking.

Wilhelm Hofmann, Cornelia Betsch, Robert Böhm, Denise de Ridder, Stefan Drews, Benjamin Ewert, Ralph Hertwig, Falko F Sniehotta, Jutta Mata

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Article in Nature human behaviour, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Wilhelm HofmannDepartment of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany. wilhelm.hofmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0295-4679
Cornelia BetschInstitute for Planetary Health Behavior, Health Communication, University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2856-7303
Robert BöhmFaculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6806-0374
Denise de RidderDepartment of Social Health & Organizational Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8237-9506
Stefan DrewsDepartment of Applied Economics (Political Economy), University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain.
Benjamin EwertDepartment of Health Sciences, Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Fulda, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1837-3898
Ralph HertwigCenter for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9908-9556
Falko F SniehottaCentre of Preventive Medicine and Digital Health, Division of Public Health, Social and Preventive Medicine, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.
Jutta MataCenter for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2498-5054

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) HO 4175/12-1
6 · The paper itself

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