IMAGINE you meet someone in a suit, talking confidently about stocks. You might instantly think, “He must be good with money.” Why? Because he fits the image of a successful investor. That’s ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Have you ever wondered why certain memories of your partner stand out more than others, shaping your perception of your relationship? This phenomenon can be explained by the availability heuristic, a ...

Abstract: This paper aims to find extensive evidence about how psychological biases affect investor behavior and prices. Specifically, we examine pricing effects attributed to representativeness ...

Research suggests readers struggle to tell the difference between human and artificial intelligence-generated essays. In a project organized by four researchers, including three from the School of ...

Journalists can’t report accurately on research involving human subjects without knowing certain details about the sample of people researchers studied. It’s important to know, for example, whether ...

Rural families living in impoverished conditions and developing nations who wish to start their own businesses are impacted by a multitude of cognitive shortcuts and heuristics. Three heuristics that ...