CHICAGO (Reuters) - During a market crisis, when everyone wants to jump off the ship in the same leaky lifeboats, that doesn't bode well for most individual investors, who simply want to preserve ...

January 9, 2017 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google The math doesn’t always work out this way, but personal finance site Funancials makes an interesting point about ...

“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew. In today’s world of social media, ...

(Politico) If John McCain’s supporters are hoping for a “Bradley effect” bounce on Election Day, some pollsters and strategists say they may have another thing coming. Beware of the “bandwagon effect.

The bandwagon effect is a psychological phenomenon whereby people do something primarily because other people are doing it, regardless of their own beliefs, which they may ignore or override. The ...

Let me begin this week by paraphrasing the great customs inspector Herman Melville: Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth, whenever it is a damp and drizzly November in my soul, then I ...

“Usually California is one of the thought leaders in employment law, and now you have added pressure in the wake of the #MeToo movement,” said Susan Groff, a principal at Jackson Lewis. "I would not ...

The #MeToo movement inspired progressive legislatures this year to revisit mandatory sexual harassment training programs statewide for nearly all workers and supervisors, part of the sweeping effort ...

The bandwagon effect is a psychological phenomenon whereby people do something primarily because other people are doing it, regardless of their own beliefs, which they may ignore or override. The ...