Behavioral Finance is the application of psychology to finance and investing. It has produced deep insights into how investors think and behave as well as how financial markets behave. Learn more ...

Polina Elagina shows investor behavior, not information, often determines long-term wealth, retirement outcomes, and strategy success.

As advisors incorporate behavioral finance more in their practices, the focus has been entirely on the potential harm investors might cause themselves through their own biases. However, advisor biases ...

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 ...

Most people like to believe they make rational financial decisions, guided by facts and careful analysis. Behavioral finance shows otherwise. Our choices are often shaped by predictable psychological ...

There's a correlation between high levels of some biases and unfavorable financial outcomes, research shows. These connections hold true even when controlling for demographic information like age, ...

As advisors incorporate behavioral finance more into their practices, their focus has been almost entirely on the potential harm investors might cause themselves through their own biases. However, ...

Most decisions we make involve some sort of a shortcut. But when we rely on these shortcuts too much, they evolve into biases—and these biases can lead to financial mistakes. Our research explored the ...

Can your brain influence your investment accounts? The study of behavioral economics would suggest that it could. Behavioral economics is a psychological study of how cognitive and emotional factors ...

Our evolutionary ancestors had to focus their attention on negative stimuli to survive—but we don't have to let this control ...