Cognitive Bias
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Cognitive Bias
Why your brain is killing your investments, not your portfolio…
Why does your brain control more of your investing success…
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Heuristic
Is critical thinking in a critical condition…?
We’re constantly being told the Interweb is actually making us…
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Cognitive Bias
It’s the end of the world and we know it… or it isn’t!
At the end of 2022 we were told the UK…
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General
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How does our thinking affect how we communicate remotely and…
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Cognitive Bias
Social Loafing
What is it: when individual effort is hidden and we…
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Cognitive Bias
Hindsight Bias
What is it: the Hindsight Bias is our view of…
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Cognitive Bias
In-Group Favouritism
What is it: this is the unconscious preference for people…
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Cognitive Bias
Groupthink
What is it: in situations where there are groups or…
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Principle/Law
Dunning-Kruger Effect
What is it: people with low ability in a task…
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Cognitive Bias
Illusion Of Control
What is it: our ego instinctively wants to control, however,…
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Cognitive Bias
Normalcy Bias
What is it: we habitually underestimate the chances of threats…
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Principle/Law
Jakob’s Law (AKA If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!)
What is it: Jakob’s Law suggests that as we spend…
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Principle/Law
Miller’s Law (AKA What can you remember?)
What is it: Miller’s Law simply suggests that we humans…
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