Understanding Behavioral BIA$ - A Guide to Improving Financial Decision-Making

This book describes the biases most relevant to investing, include background on how biases develop, and offer practical strategies to help you to improve your performance.
The authors offer a guide to categorizing biases based on cutting-edge brain science, which will enable readers to implement best practices that guard against whole sets of biases. Emphasis is placed on the practical implications of financial decision-making and provides a scientific basis for adjusting investing practices, to avoid common cognitive traps.

About the author

Daniel C Krawczyk, PhD, is professor of behavioral and brain sciences and holds the Francis Chair at The University of Texas at Dallas. He authored the book Reasoning: The Neuroscience of How We Think, a comprehensive guide to reasoning research and best practices. His research has focused on understanding reasoning and decision making through a multi-disciplinary approach combining brain imaging and cognitive psychology. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles and was a research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

Product details

• Authors: George H. Baxter, Daniel C. Krawczyk, David C. Krawczyk
• Publisher: Business Expert Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781949991802
• ISBN: 978-1-949991-80-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 309 g
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous