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Wealth managers who understand cognitive biases can use this knowledge to help better manage investor confidence and steer ...

Our ability to tune out what really matters is most underestimated risk facing modern society, argues author Nuala Walsh ...

Picture a New Yorker-style cartoon of a caveman with a briefcase and fedora. According to evolutionary psychology, we moderns ...

Dr. Kristin Finkbeiner of Griffith College Dublin discusses how cognitive bias shapes our understanding of the world.

But a lesser-known cognitive bias, pointed out by author Amanda Montell, which can be an equal hindrance is overconfidence ...

It is well-documented how imposter syndrome can hinder you in the workplace. The cognitive bias which describes the condition of not feeling successful internally when you appear to be thriving ...

The psychological need for certainty can be seen in several cognitive heuristics, which are mental shortcuts that simplify ...

In an ideal world, we would always make the best choices. When it comes to investing, that’s difficult to do. That’s because cognitive biases trick our brains into making irrational and emotional ...

Former champion Simon March examines the tendency of FPL managers to prioritise immediate rewards over future ones, ie ...

If so, you may have been wrong. Hindsight bias, sometimes referred to as the “knew-it-all-along” effect, is a common cognitive bias that causes us to perceive past events as having been more ...