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Tim Richards

Author, Owner of The Psy-Fi Blog
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Tim Richards is a blogger, researcher and advocate of behavioral finance. He owns the Psy-Fi Blog, a sideways look at psychology and finance. Mr Richards is also the author of The Zeitgeist Investor. In 'The Zeitgeist Investor: Unlocking The Mind of the ...more
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The Pschology Of Investing: S Is For Self-Enhancing Transmission Bias
Friday, July 11, 2014 3:33 AM EDT
The psychology of investing: Self-Enhancing Transmission Bias is what everyone does when they talk about themselves: they big themselves up and conveniently forget about their mistakes.
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The Pschology Of Investing: R If For Representative Heuristic
Thursday, July 10, 2014 4:48 AM EDT
The Representative Heuristic is our trick of comparing whatever happens to be under consideration to whatever we can bring to mind. It's an effect of availability, but we can be primed into triggering the heuristic by clever manipulators or not-so-clever psychologists.
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The Pschology Of Investing: Q Is For Quantification Fallacy
Wednesday, July 9, 2014 7:46 AM EDT
The Quantification Fallacy is a logic error where the premises don't justify the conclusion.
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SCOTUS Breaches The Efficient Frontier Back To The Future
Tuesday, July 8, 2014 6:21 AM EDT
As you'll know the Psy-Fi Blog spends a lot of time pointing out to a (largely disinterested) audience of investors that there's a huge amount of psychological research out there that we can use to guide our investing behavior.
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The Pschology Of Investing: P Is For Priming
Monday, July 7, 2014 7:54 AM EDT
Priming is a psychological sleight of hand, a method of the brain preparing itself for what is about to happen.
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The Pschology Of Investing: O Is For Overconfidence
Friday, July 4, 2014 8:47 AM EDT
Overconfidence is highly underrated as a cause of poor investing behavior
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The Pschology Of Investing: N Is For Negativity
Thursday, July 3, 2014 6:07 AM EDT
Negativity Bias is a reference to our general predisposition to regard negative events as more salient and potent than equivalent positive ones.
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The Pschology Of Investing: M Is For Mental Accounting
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 4:25 AM EDT
Mental Accounting is the term given for our habit of mentally allocating money to various accounts and then acting as though they're in separate high security vaults...
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The Pschology Of Investing: L Is For Loss Aversion
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 5:01 AM EDT
The Psychology Of Investing Series continues with L is for Loss Aversion. Loss Aversion is the name given to our aversion to losses (duh).
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CEOs: The More You Pay Them, The Worse They Perform
Monday, June 30, 2014 4:46 AM EDT
The Peter Principle states that everyone gets promoted to a level at which they're incompetent.
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The Problem With Positive Thinking
Monday, June 30, 2014 12:25 AM EDT
Tadas Viskanta has posted an excerpt from my new book, Investing Psychology: The Effects of Behavioral Finance on Investment Choice and Bias.
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The Pschology Of Investing: K Is For Kruger-Dunning Effect
Saturday, June 28, 2014 3:21 PM EDT
The psychology of investing series continues with K: The Kruger-Dunning Effect (or, more traditionally, the Dunning-Kruger Effect) identifies the issue that some people are too stupid to know that they're stupid.
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The Pschology Of Investing: J Is For January Effect
Thursday, June 26, 2014 3:51 AM EDT
The January Effect is the observation that small cap stocks consistently outperform markets in January.
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The Pschology Of Investing: I Is For Illusion Of Control
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 4:45 AM EDT
Illusion of Control refers to our convoluted efforts to retain the belief that we're in control in situations where we really aren't.
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The Pschology Of Investing: H Is For Hindsight Bias
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 7:27 AM EDT
Hindsight Bias is the tricky problem that in the past we think we predicted the present, so here in the present we think we can predict the future.
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So, What IS The Point Of Financial Advisers?
Monday, June 23, 2014 8:09 AM EDT
Consumers of environmentally friendly products are more likely to steal; and advisers who disclose their conflicts of interest are more likely to do the same – although they’ll call it something different, of course.
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