Sentences with phrase «many psychological biases»

«Scarcity taps into a psychological bias we humans have, but companies and designers need to use it ethically.

Stock prices go up or down responding to any number of psychological biases as opposed to fundamental developments.

Maybe they have a strong psychological bias against occasional whipsaw losses and do not mind bear market drawdowns.

Performance chasing should not be due to myopia, irrational loss aversion, or other psychological biases.

My question to both of you is really apt to psychological biases.

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When a high quality stock is sold down due an earnings miss, a product issue, a management change, an industry or regulatory issue, a geopolitical event or some transitional business issue there's a decent chance investors have over-reacted to the negative news due to psychological biases.

In other words, the sportsbooks played on the public's general psychological bias towards betting on the «favorites» to bet even more money on supposed lopsided games.

If that argument is true then these would be psychological biases that people are not necessarily consciously aware of — we wouldn't expect them to show up in a survey like this.

He claims that the nature of a country's political system — specifically, whether it is a democracy or a dictatorship — is determined by psychological biases triggered by the threat of disease (See «Genes, germs and the origins of politics»).

Psychological biases cause investors to underreact or overreact to new information, as fear, greed, and emotion tend to drive investment decisions.

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Beyond relying on objective evidence, systematic approaches isolate trades from the psychological biases, internal politics, and other personal and organizational stresses that too often interfere with executing sound investment strategy.

Hindsight bias, denial, overconfidence and other psychological biases are powerful.

«Am I under the influence of any psychological biases?»

These same psychological biases are part of the reason for the boom - bust cycles in the stock market and why the average investor get hurts repeatedly.

By understanding and learning from these tendencies, we better equip ourselves to avoid psychological biases when investing.

Humans are prone to misjudgement and psychological biases — we aren't always objective.

At the risk of being susceptible to confirmation bias — one of the many psychological biases Mauboussin suggests good investors need to be aware of — I loved the podcast and the paper.

James Montier, in his book The Little Book Of Behavioral Investing, explains the prevalence of this psychological bias in the field of soccer.

However, I don't think that many people are aware of just how much psychological bias goes in to a given discussion.

[Continuing his regular GameSetWatch column, psychologist and gamer Jamie Madigan looks at the psychological biases and quirks that may rear their head during those interminable Game of the Year debates.]

If you don't understand the psychological biases and heuristics that technical experts, policy - makers, and the general public, use in thinking about uncertain risks, you won't be able to communicate effectively because people will unconsciously distort what you say to fit their preconceived (possibly faulty) mental model of the issue (see M. Granger Morgan, «Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach» (Cambridge, 2001) for solid empirical evidence of this problem and how to avoid it.

Kahneman won the 2002 Nobel prize in economics for his research on the psychological biases that distort rational decision - making.

The psychological biases that make people individually and collectively blind to uncertainty and unaware of the massive role of the rare event in historical affairs

The legal effect can be identical, but a subtle psychological bias can be introduced by selecting loaded words as definitions or terms.

When litigants integrate data and models with decision sciences research showing how psychological biases and heuristics lead to suboptimal results, they acquire new and valuable tools to assess their alternatives.

It promised to target voters» «unconscious psychological biases,» by using massive amounts of data develop personality profiles, which could then be used to create extremely specific ads.

The company closely associated with Ted Cruz's data - centric primary campaign has switched teams: Cambridge Analytica, the London - based outfit that boasts an ability to target voters based on their unconscious psychological biases is now working behind the scenes for Donald Trump.

The company, which claims to harvest massive amounts of data to develop personality profiles and target voters» «unconscious psychological biases», has been swept up in an investigation by the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

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And Whye's team is adding new training for all 13,000 managers that will include content on subjects like psychological safety that she believes will help leaders better overcome biases.

The level of individual elements is the level of biography, with its wealth of detail, its perceptual bias, and its psychological insights.

More specifically, the aim was to study the effects of early family relationships on children's emotion regulation, psychological defense mechanisms, and the related biases in their social - emotional information processing (i.e. attention biases to emotional facial expressions).

Other research in political psychology suggests that the no campaign has had a much easier job — those inclined to political conservatism are more likely to have a «negativity bias» in their response to environmental stimuli — conservatives have more of a physiological reaction to potential threats in the environment and subsequently devote more psychological resources towards dealing with them: conservatives, quite literately, see more things that could go wrong than liberals.

The doctor who conducts psychological exams for men and women who want to become Buffalo police officers and firefighters may be on his way out, after complaints of racial bias and inappropriate questions probing applicants» sexual histories.

The psychologist who conducts psychological exams for men and women who want to become Buffalo police officers and firefighters may be on his way out, after complaints of racial bias and inappropriate questions probing applicants» sexual histories.

Numerous studies have shown that both judge and jury can harbour implicit biases that could swing a conviction and sentence (Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol 20, p 58).

Responding to some of her harshest critics, Witt has a new paper in Psychological Science that faces head - on the notion that her experimental subjects have been victims of a psychological phenomenon called rPsychological Science that faces head - on the notion that her experimental subjects have been victims of a psychological phenomenon called rpsychological phenomenon called response bias.

Inexperienced investors often fail to make wise investments because they are too influenced by psychological and sociological «biases» rather than economic fundamentals.

«Our hope was the scene images would bias the background, or contextual, thoughts that people had as they studied the words to include scene - related thoughts,» says lead author Jeremy Manning, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth.

Many psychological factors could have confounded the results — differential sensitivity to gains and losses, for example — but Cavanagh and Frank controlled for those with the help of a sophisticated computer model that accounts for and statistically disentangles the relationship of bias and theta from those other influences.

«We weren't looking to explain anything about choice bias to start off with,» said lead author Jeffrey Cockburn, a graduate student in the research group of senior author Michael Frank, associate professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences.

Psychological research has presented the idea that hallucinations may result from biases in what are known as metacognitive abilities.

Published Dec. 21 in the journal Psychological Science, the research found that children can «catch» social bias by seeing negative signals expressed by adults and are likely to generalize that learned bias to others.

This could be due to psychological effects that some uniform colours can have on winner bias.

Our aims are as follows: 1) to determine whether disclosure of elevated brain amyloid will bias ADCS - PACC test results; 2) to determine whether disclosure of elevated brain amyloid will cause psychological distress; and 3) to explore how learning amyloid imaging disclosure will impact preventative health behaviors, advance planning for health (e.g. long - term care insurance decisions) and well - being (e.g. stigma, quality of life and relationships).

A study published in the journal Psychological Science showed that present - moment awareness, which arises from a compassionate mindset, can influence the degree to which «sunk - cost bias» affects decision making.

A community where all students feel free from bias, discrimination, and harassment is a place where bullying is less likely to occur, where it will be handled in ways that seek to understand and address students» real needs, and where children's cognitive and psychological resources are freed up to focus on learning.

Specifically includes: Psychological explanations of offending behaviour: Eysenck's theory of the criminal personality; cognitive explanations; level of moral reasoning and cognitive distortions, including hostile attribution bias and minimalisation; differential association theory; psychodynamic explanations.

• Psychological explanations of offending behaviour: Eysenck's theory of the criminal personality; cognitive explanations; level of moral reasoning and cognitive distortions, including hostile attribution bias and minimalisation; differential association theory; psychodynamic explanations.