Cognitive biases can have a negative impact on an investor’s ability to make rational decisions, potentially derailing their investment goals. These mental shortcuts and distortions that we make ...

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Someone once famously said, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” This certainly holds true for biases. We all have biases. Our conscious biases—or those we’re aware of—are fairly easy to ...

While humans often consider themselves superior to other beings on Earth, this status in the animal kingdom has its drawbacks. Our capacity for complex thought also means we are uniquely skilled at ...

While many people are familiar with the concept of bias, having a deeper understanding of what it is and how it manifests is often the first step in circumventing negative ramifications. Bias can ...

Think back to middle school algebra, like 2 a + b. Those letters are parameters: Assign them values and you get a result. In ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Bias and cognitive bias have received significant attention from researchers and practitioners over the past half-century. Wikipedia’s List of Cognitive Biases provides an overwhelming array of ...

Biases impact far more than issues pertaining to social justice and social injustice, or what I tend to refer to as civil rights categories. If one looks up the word bias in the dictionary, what they ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Americans still fundamentally care for each other despite political differences, but persistent biases of many kinds may be preventing many Americans from caring for ...