There is an unbelievable mountain of research in this area - specifically in discovering methods of calculating future price value and economic fluxuations in...
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Martin Sewell
martinsewell1
Jan 3, 2009 2:12 pm
<http://blogs.ft.com/wolfforum/2009/01/darwin-and-the-terrible-games-of-homo-sapiens/> Darwin and the terrible games of Homo sapiens January 2, 2009 by FT By...
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orl_potsdam
Jan 5, 2009 1:12 pm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5432741.ece From The Times, January 3, 2009 How to think yourself successful: Acquire a postive...
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Tarek Hoteit
thoteit
Jan 5, 2009 4:16 pm
CBS 60 Minutes just ran a show on the latest brain-screen technologies, part of Neuroscience field of identifying human behavior through fMRI (functional MRI)...
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Tarek Hoteit
thoteit
Jan 5, 2009 4:28 pm
The recent edition of the Financial Times includes an article on the relationship of financial stress with suicide at corporates. The article is at the...
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Tarek Hoteit
thoteit
Jan 6, 2009 3:20 am
Marketplace at PublicRadio.org has an interview with behavioral economist Dan Ariely. "Does endlessly hearing about the likes of Bernie Madoff affect everyone ...
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pgreenfinch
Jan 6, 2009 9:25 am
Hi, dear members and visitors! Here is your 105th month newsletter. 1) Monthly activity The number of (non bouncing) members stayed stable at 1840 The decrease...
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Tarek Hoteit
thoteit
Jan 6, 2009 8:06 pm
With latest advancement in the field of neuroscience and ability to follow neural movements in the brain through fMRI scans and other technological devices, do...
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Sheng Wang
swang1122
Jan 7, 2009 1:13 am
Congratulation on the advancement in pure science, but not in social science, according to my opinions! We may clearly know a personal behavior in many...
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pgreenfinch
Jan 7, 2009 11:26 am
Found this article: http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/applied-behavioral-finance- using/2utb2lsm2k7a/653# Peter...
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Tarek Hoteit
thoteit
Jan 7, 2009 4:44 pm
thank you for the interesting insights. I would like to share an interesting insight by William Barret who wrote a book, "Irrational Man: A Study in...
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Peter Greenfinch
pgreenfinch
Jan 7, 2009 5:39 pm
Quite interesting, Tarek, I love philophical issues myself, as well as scientific quest for knowledge, but I wonder if this thread is not going far from our...
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pgreenfinch
Jan 7, 2009 6:01 pm
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Tarek Hoteit
thoteit
Jan 7, 2009 6:28 pm
agree Peter. It probably is going far from what the focus of this group. One starts with something and minds take us to maze of other things. ... twentieth...
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Tarek Hoteit
thoteit
Jan 10, 2009 5:29 am
At Freakonomics blog, Andrew Log writes <http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/this-is-your-brain-on-\ ...
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Peter Greenfinch
pgreenfinch
Jan 10, 2009 10:03 am
That is true Tarek, and what is also crucial to dig in is how greed and fear (and other primal emotions, linked to pain or pleasure feelings) can be collective...
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Martin Sewell
martinsewell1
Jan 10, 2009 4:05 pm
... None of us are able to 'overcome our biology', it is our genes that motivate us to seek and enable us to absorb an education and experience. Martin...
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Tarek Hoteit
thoteit
Jan 10, 2009 5:37 pm
I agree, Peter. However, greed and fear are both personal traits and are easily attractive. Similar to a bunch of smoking friends hanging around and are trying...
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Tarek Hoteit
thoteit
Jan 10, 2009 5:54 pm
we cannot overcome our biology for sure. What is questionable, however, is if some of our genes or the actions behind our genes are inheritable. If our genes...
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petershk
Jan 11, 2009 3:55 am
A couple of comments here. First, we don't really know which part of our behavior is genetic and which part is not, although there is lots of reseach in this...
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Kwok Yeung
profileofval...
Jan 11, 2009 5:08 am
When economists develop economic theories and do analysis or research, usually there is no study on the operation of the brain of economic man, as the focus is...
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Peter Greenfinch
pgreenfinch
Jan 11, 2009 9:17 am
Hello! Interesting debate, at the core of BE / BF issues Seems to me that a macro BF or BE law, not general as behavioral traits are quite diverse, but...
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Martin Sewell
martinsewell1
Jan 14, 2009 12:55 pm
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/12/AR2009011202109.html> Born to Be a Trader? Fingers Point to Yes. Study Cites Early...
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Shalini Kalra Sahi
shalinikalra78
Jan 15, 2009 4:49 am
Hi I wanted to ask the group a question. It is pertaining to the heuristics and biases. As the literature shows that there are number of biases that impact a...
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Peter Greenfinch
pgreenfinch
Jan 15, 2009 8:36 am
Hello At least loss aversion seems less "rational"; than risk aversion, as loss aversion can drive somebody who is risk averse to stay prisoner anyway of a...
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Martin Sewell
martinsewell1
Jan 15, 2009 6:32 pm
... In neoclassical economics a rational decision maker obeys the axioms of expected utility theory. So we may define a bias as behaviour that violates...
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pgreenfinch
Jan 15, 2009 7:40 pm
Hi, Martin! I have a little problem of understanding here. The expected utility tenet takes into account risks, which are measured via probabilities. When...
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Martin Sewell
martinsewell1
Jan 15, 2009 11:21 pm
... Hi Peter A Dutch book is a gambling term for a set of odds and bets which guarantees a profit, regardless of the outcome of the gamble. At the very least,...
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JT Kostman, Ph.D.
iopsychology
Jan 16, 2009 2:02 pm
Hi Shalini - This was an excellent question; I hope you (and Martin) won't mind if I add my two cents. The issue you address is central to how we are to...
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Bob Bronson
bobbronson2001
Jan 19, 2009 2:51 am
Thanx for your well-written evaluation, Dr. Kostman. What do you consider stop losses used by investors, either reactively (subjectively ex post), or...
