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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

— Herbert A. Simon

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Behavioral Science & Policy Association
Behavioral Insight Group, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
Harding Centre for Risk Literacy, Berlin
ARC Centre, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Behavioral Insight Team, London
Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, White House Washington
Bounded Rationality and Education

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