However, in its more benign form it provides a calming effect on markets through balance.

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Choice architecture is usually the most benign form of paternalism that behavioral economics has brought us in practice.

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Like many concerned Americans, I'm susceptible to the Prius Fallacy: a belief that switching to an ostensibly more benign form of consumption turns consumption itself into a boon for the environment.

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Fortunately it seems to have mutated into a more benign form and though it swiftly spread around the globe, this time it did not kill on anything like the same scale.

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Some people have a benign form of multiple sclerosis.

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Body language was the basis for our earliest form of communication when the split-second ability to recognize if a person or situation was benign or dangerous was often a matter of life or death.

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