Twelve-year-old Jaysen Carr died in July 2025. While he swam in Lake Murray, a reservoir a few miles from Columbia, South ...

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 ...

The conventional wisdom in classical economics is that we humans are “rational actors” who, by our nature, make decisions and behave in ways that maximize advantage and utility and minimize risk and ...

Every choice we make, from picking peanut butter to forming political opinions, is influenced by unseen cognitive biases.

On May 24, 2023, Steven Pinker and Richard Thaler, two of the world’s leading behavioral scientists, engaged in a wide-ranging discussion on rationality, AI, overcoming collective action problems, and ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more ...

This article was written by Mark Gorzycki and Mahesh Kashyap, co-founders of Kievanos. As a species that relies heavily on cognitive ability for our evolutionary success, it’s no surprise that many of ...

(Below is an excerpt from Bob Pisani's new book "Shut Up and Keep Talking: Lessons on Life and Investing from the Floor of the New York Stock Exchange.") Most people like to think that they're ...

Now that the Certified Financial Planner exam has added a component focused on behavioral finance, it might make sense to cover some relevant concepts as to how the mind effects money and feelings ...

Sports talent scouts' decisions are influenced by various common cognitive biases that can affect their work and undermine team success, a paper published in the International Review of Sport and ...