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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Psychological biases"”.
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Psychological biases affect hedonic ratings
Psychological biases in consumer testing may lead to misinterpretation of results and lower experimental power. Reports on various hedonic scales associated with psychological biases induced by sample presentation are limited in the literature. An appropriate experimental protocol could enable …
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Factors influencing investment decision-making before and after an informative Emotional Intelligence Intervention
… exists in psychology pertaining to the various biases which influence human decision-making. A growing body of knowledge on the understanding of decision-making in an investment setting has been established over the last 30 or so years. The objective of this study is to understand the factors …
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Using natural language to predict bias and factuality in media with a study on rationalization
… it polarizing in nature, and preys on peoples' psychological biases to make it more believable and viral. In order to dampen the influence of fake news, organizations have begun to manually tag, or develop systems to automatically tag, false and biased information. However, manual efforts …
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An evaluation of the prescriptive utility of psychological bias theory in international relations
I evaluate the practical utility of psychological bias theory by examining two historical cases - the US decision to cross the 38th parallel in 1950 and the British policy of appeasement towards Germany in the 1930s - asking in each of these whether the theory could have helped policymakers to make …
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Men are from investment Mars and women are from investment Venus : further evidence of differential investment performance in South Africa based on gender
… investor theory, by showing that certain psychological biases affect the behaviour of investors in a manner which causes them to behave irrationally at certain times. The purpose of this paper is to gain further evidence of differential investment performance (which stems from some of …
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An Investigation into the Psychology of Socially Responsible Investment Decisions
… economic theory and theory relating to psychological biases can potentially be utilised in the promotion of SRI to increase the quantity of capital being invested through SRI strategies. The analysis finds that the way SRI decisions are framed can significantly affect the propensity with …
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Essays on institutions and pre-founding experience : effects for technology-based entrepreneurs in the US and China
… firm performance. We draw on two strands of psychological theory - availability and partition dependence - and tie them together with the idea that variation in managers' cognitive representations of the competitive landscape drives differences in firm outcomes. The results of the study are …
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The effectiveness of the Piotroski screen for value stock selection on the JSE
… minimise suboptimal investor behaviour caused by psychological biases on the JSE, investors should adopt a mechanical investment method based on objective financial statement analysis, using the Piotroski screen to select financially strong firms from the pool of value firms. It was further …
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How communication technologies impact the size and composition of human collective memory
… ability depends on factors that range from the psychological biases that predispose us to learn from skillful and prestigious people, to the development of technologies for recording and communicating information: from clay tablets to the Internet. How do these communication technologies affect …
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Preventing guilt by association: Mindfulness and susceptibility to evaluative conditioning
… differences may be related to various social and psychological biases. One variable that has been linked with less negative attitude formation, although not using an EC paradigm, is mindfulness. Further, mindfulness is proposed to alter dimensions of elaboration that may underlie EC, particularly …
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Quantifying the Effects of Sentiment and Expectations on the United States Credit Growth
… credit expansion, growing evidence suggests that psychological biases, investor sentiment, and extrapolative expectations contribute significantly to credit market fluctuations. Using a dataset comprising sixteen sentiment and expectations indices—including the Consumer Sentiment Index, Anxious …
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Essays in Financial Economics
… by rational expectations due to behavioral/psychological biases of investors, ambiguity aversion, or omitted permanent components to valuation. Formally, evidence about investor beliefs is represented as a nonlinear expectation function deduced using model-implied moment conditions and …