Understanding and designing persuasion mechanisms

这个项目的目标是理解和设计说服机制。说服是关于传达信息、影响信仰和操纵行动。教育运动和媒体审查法规就是说服机制的例子。现有的说服经济学技术只允许对特定和有限的背景进行分析。这个项目旨在以一种新颖的方式应用经典的机制设计方法来模拟丰富而现实的环境中的说服，从而为现实世界的情况提供洞察力。预计这将使我们能够回答这样的问题：教育活动是否应该以不同的信息针对不同的消费者？以及“政府应该在什么时候审查极端媒体机构？”

The objective of this project is to understand and design persuasion mechanisms. Persuasion is about conveying information, influencing beliefs and manipulating actions. Educational campaigns and media censorship regulations are examples of persuasion mechanisms. Existing techniques from the economics of persuasion only permit analysis of specific and limited settings. This project aims to apply the classical mechanism design approach in a novel way to model persuasion in rich and realistic settings, thus providing insights into real-world situations. It is anticipated that this will allow us to answer questions such as ‘Should an educational campaign target different consumers with different information?’ and ‘When should a government censor extreme media outlets?'.