Cognitive Dissonance And How To Be Wrong
Source: Stranger Still Via Barry Ritholtz
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Confirmation Bias, Group Think, And Cognitive Dissonance – Mind Games
In “Bubbles and Elevators”, we discussed how human beings do seemingly ridiculous things to fulfill their instinctive need to mimic what others are doing, right…
Psychology Of Passwords – Does Your Personality Make You More Likely To Get Hacked?
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Shiller Was Warned Not to Tell the Truth About the Stock Market — And We All Heard the Message
Valuation-Informed Indexing #294 by Rob Bennett Robert Shiller says in his book Irrational Exuberance that: “On several occasions I have discovered firsthand the pressure on public…
Investment Selection Process – Getting To Zero
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Robert Shiller Explains Behavioral Economics
In some respects, Robert Shiller is the man who made Behavioral Economics famous. His book, Animal Spirits, was one of the first mainstream publications on…
A Story From My Own Life That Shows the Power of the Self-Deception That Also Causes Stock Booms and Crashes
Valuation-Informed Indexing #271 by Rob Bennett I don’t believe that Buy-and-Hold can work. Buy-and-Holders don’t consider valuations when setting their stock allocations. That makes no…
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): ‘Blind Spots’
Here is an excerpt from Capital Ideas Online on cognitive dissonance and self-justification followed by a book review of Mistakes Were Made (But Not by…
Cognitive Dissonance: Hard to Fire Yourself; Easy to Fire Your Manager
Cognitive Dissonance: Hard to Fire Yourself; Easy to Fire Your Manager by Wesley R. Gray, Ph.D., Alpha Architect, Author, Quantitative Value: A Practitioner’s Guide to Automating…