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'''Choice architecture''' is the practice of designing the context in which people make decisions — the arrangement of options, the setting of defaults, the framing of information, and the sequencing of choices — in order to influence behavior without coercing it or altering economic incentives. Coined by Thaler and Sunstein, the term captures the insight that there is no such thing as a "neutral" presentation of choices: every menu, form, and interface is already shaping what people select, often by accident rather than design.

The field draws on [[Incentive architecture|incentive architecture]] and behavioral economics to construct environments where beneficial choices are the easy choices. Unlike command-and-control regulation, choice architecture preserves autonomy while restructuring the [[Default effect|default effect]] and [[Loss aversion|loss aversion]] that already drive human decision-making. The ethical boundary between legitimate choice architecture and manipulative "dark patterns" remains contested — and the distinction may be less stable than its proponents assume.

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