Nudges For News Recommenders: Prominent Article Positioning Increases Selection, Engagement and Recall of Environmental News, but Reducing Complexity Does Not
This archive stores data from a one-week long field experiment on nudging readers to engage with environmental news in a news aggregator. Specifically, we conducted a 1-week long field experiment with the Informfully news platform - a customisable content delivery platform developed by researchers at the University of Zurich. We populated the app with daily scraped news articles from several major UK news outlets and tested how manipulating the prominence and text complexity of environmental news affect their likelihood of being selected and recalled. The study took place in the UK in the fall of 2023 and involved N = 502 respondents who successfully completed the study. The archive includes raw and processed data, analysis files, and relevant study materials. A detailed description of the study and its materials is also available on OSF: https://osf.io/8zfn5/