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04
Jul
2009
The unemotional investor  

11 hours ago by Visible Investment Advisors

It is sometimes said "be an intelligent investor, you must be unemotional." That isn't true - you should be inversely emotional - see the enthusiasm of others as a yellow caution light, and their misery as a sign of hope. The true investor would be pleased, rather than discouraged, when the market i ...

Visible Investing - visibleinvesting.blogspot.com

03
Jul
2009
Dan Ariely: Why we think it’s OK to cheat and steal (sometimes)  

1 day ago by Eric

"Behavioral economist Dan Ariely studies the bugs in our moral code: the hidden reasons we think it's OK to cheat or steal (sometimes). Clever studies help make his point that we're predictably irrational -- and can be influenced in ways we can't grasp."

PsychLectures - psychlectures.com · 7 references

02
Jul
2009
Quantitative Intuition II: The Bayesian Brain’s Achilles Heel  

2 days ago by Katrina Lamb

In a previous posting ( “Quantitative Intuition: It’s Not Counterintuitive”) I described some of the advancements that have been made in bringing together the disparate worlds of quantitative methods and human intuition, ending on the rather happy note that advanced scientific micromarketing models ...

Sentrana Blog - blog.sentrana.com · 3 references

Gladwell at it again  

2 days ago by agnostic

In the new issue of The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell reviews some book about using the appeal of FREE to grow your business. This is supposed to apply most strongly to information, so that as more and more of a firm's product / service consists of information, the more it can use the appeal of FREE ...

Gene Expression - gnxp.com/blog · Rank: 8,502 · 388 references

The Behavioral Economics of Self Measurement  

2 days ago by Bob Nease

The most recent Wired has a series of articles on how tracking personal data is changing people’s behaviors. They cite the Nike+ system as an example of the potential revolutionary effect of self measurement. Nike+ combines a non-intrusive sensor, an iPod, and easy-to-use web-based tools to track yo ...

Ignite Symposium - ignitesymposium.com/blog · 1 reference

Is there a best level of savings?  

2 days ago by Stephen Monrad

People’s ability to wait for gratification deminishes over time. Behavioral economists have found that while people are willing to accept a smaller payment now rather than a larger payment a year from now, they prefer to wait for the larger payment if the year’s wait is far off in the future. To be ...

Stephen Monrad - stephenmonrad.com/blog · Rank: 48,395 · 1 reference

Efficient Markets are Dead  

2 days ago by Ocean

An article by the Financial Times states how the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) seems to be dead among many people in finance these days. Because of the all the turmoil in recent months, people believe that the markets cannot be trusted, and they start having more faith in other theories, such as ...

DumbAgent.com - dumbagent.com · 1 reference

Do taste and smell adjectives signal value, or do they create it?  

2 days ago by Robin Goldstein

We may disagree about our favorite artists and musicians, but it’s relatively easy to agree that a particular color is blue, or that a particular note is C-sharp. They’re described by wavelengths and frequencies along a clearly defined spectrum. That’s why the technologies of visual and auditory rep ...

Blind Taste / Robin Goldstein - blindtaste.com · Rank: 57,216 · 12 references

01
Jul
2009
Explorations of the Mind: Intuition  

3 days ago by Eric

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“ Daniel Kahneman is an internationally renowned psychologist whose work spans cognitive psychology, behavioral economics, and the science of well-being. In recognition of his groundbreaking work on human judgment and decision-making, Kahneman received the 2002 Nobel Prize.”

PsychLectures - psychlectures.com · 7 references

A Nudge to the Trousers  

3 days ago by Bob Nease

Some department stores in the United States require employees to carry clear plastic handbags so the company security folks can quickly determine whether there’s any shoplifting going on. I’d think something similar might be called for here: Staff at Nepal’s main international airport are to be issu ...

Ignite Symposium - ignitesymposium.com/blog · 1 reference

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