Understanding Behavioral BIA$
A Guide to Improving Financial Decision-Making
Published on 13. November 2019
206 pages
978-1-949991-81-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book describes the biases most relevant to investing, include background on how biases develop, and offer practical strategies to help you to improve your performance.
The authors offer a guide to categorizing biases based on cutting-edge brain science, which will enable readers to implement best practices that guard against whole sets of biases. Emphasis is placed on the practical implications of financial decision-making and provides a scientific basis for adjusting investing practices, to avoid common cognitive traps.
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Daniel C. Krawczyk | George H. Baxter
Understanding Behavioral BIA$
A Guide to Improving Financial Decision-Making
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11/2019
Business Expert Press
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Persons
Daniel C Krawczyk, PhD, is professor of behavioral and brain sciences and holds the Francis Chair at The University of Texas at Dallas. He authored the book Reasoning: The Neuroscience of How We Think, a comprehensive guide to reasoning research and best practices. His research has focused on understanding reasoning and decision making through a multi-disciplinary approach combining brain imaging and cognitive psychology. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles and was a research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Our Biased Brains
- Part I
- Chapter 2: Attention and the Brain
- Chapter 3: Attention Biases Described
- Part II
- Chapter 4: Our Memory Systems
- Chapter 5: Memory Biases
- Part III
- Chapter 6: Knowledge
- Chapter 7: Knowledge Biases
- Part IV
- Chapter 8: Best Practices to AvoidBehavioral Bias
- About the Authors
- Index
- Adpage
- Backcover
