LibraryPsychology and decisions · 2016

The Psychology and Neuroscience of Financial Decision Making

Cary Frydman and Colin F. Camerer

A review of why people make poor financial decisions, from cognitive science and brain research.

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Summary

Frydman and Camerer review the evidence: households under-diversify and under-save, investors chase past returns and trade too often, and even top executives are swayed by overconfidence.

They connect these errors to known features of how the brain processes reward and risk.

Source

Title
The Psychology and Neuroscience of Financial Decision Making
Author
Cary Frydman and Colin F. Camerer
Year
2016
Published by
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Length
15 pages
File
PDF · 2.2 MB

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