Behavioral Finance

A detailed guide to overcoming the most frequently encountered psychological pitfalls of investing. Bias, emotion, and overconfidence are just three of the many behavioral traits that can lead investors to lose money or achieve lower returns. Behavioral finance, which recognizes that there is a psychological element to all investor decision-making, can help you overcome this obstacle.

Named one of Financial Times’s Best Books of 2025, that bestselling author Tim Hartford called "fun" and "nerdy in the best way" Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and rising star economist Alex O. Imas explore the past, present, and cutting-edge future in behavioral economics in The...

Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans - predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth - and change the way we think about economics, ourselves, and our world.

The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast...

Money - investing, personal finance, and business decisions - is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money.

In The Behavioral Investor, psychologist and asset manager Dr. Daniel Crosby examines the sociological, neurological, and psychological factors that influence our investment decisions and sets forth practical solutions for improving both returns and behavior. Listeners will be treated to the most comprehensive examination of investor behavior to date and will leave with concrete solutions for refining decision-making processes, increasing self-awareness, and constraining the fatal flaws to which most investors are prone.

Spread through the public in the form of popular stories, ideas can go viral and move markets - whether it's the belief that tech stocks can only go up or that housing prices never fall. Whether true or false, stories like these - transmitted by word of mouth, by the news media, and increasingly by social media - drive the economy by driving our decisions about how and where to invest, how much to spend and save, and more. But despite the obvious importance of such stories, most economists have paid little attention to them. Narrative Economics sets out to change that.

Whether you're mired in loss aversion, suffer from anchoring bias, or you're sorting your portfolio into various mental accounts, investor biases will prevent you from maximizing your wealth. But you can learn to challenge your own biases and prevent costly investment errors! In Behavioral Finance and Your Portfolio, veteran investor and advisor Michael M. Pompian delivers a thorough grounding in the most important investor biases you're likely to encounter when making crucial investment decisions.

Unlock the Science of Decision-Making and Take Control of Your Choices! Have you ever wondered why you make impulse purchases, procrastinate on important tasks, or struggle to save money despite knowing better? Behavioral Economics Unlocked: Turning Insights into Better Decisions reveals the hidden psychological forces that shape your choices—and how to use them to your advantage. This book uncovers the science behind decision-making, financial behavior, habit formation, and business strategies, giving you the tools to make smarter, more intentional choices in every area of life. Discover...

This essential collection brings together two powerful guides, Master Your Money Mind and Master Behavioral Finance, creating a roadmap to financial mastery. These books uniquely bridge the understanding of human psychology, practical financial strategies, and comprehensive investment knowledge. Master Your Money Mind contains the core of personal financial challenges, from managing debt to understanding income allocation and developing resilience in the face of financial obstacles. By breaking down practical rules like the 50/30/20 guideline, compounding principles, and effective debt ...

Unlock the Power of Behavioral Finance and Make Smarter Investment Decisions! Investing isn't just about numbers and charts—it's deeply influenced by human psychology. The Psychology of Investing: Overcoming Biases and Making Smarter Decisions reveals the hidden psychological forces that shape your financial choices and offers strategies to harness the power of behavioral finance. This comprehensive guide provides the tools and insights you need to enhance your investment strategy and make more rational, informed decisions.What You’ll Discover Inside: Understanding Cognitive Biases: ...

According to most economics textbooks, human beings are super-rational creatures who know what is in their own best interests and always act accordingly. When making a decision to purchase, the rational consumer would not buy something on the spur of the moment, or on the recommendation of a friend. Sound realistic?

The Psychology of Stock Market Investing reveals how the real game is played not on spreadsheets, but in your mind. You’ll uncover the emotional blowups behind Wall Street’s worst disasters in the past and see how even billionaire investors and brilliant minds lose their way.

Professor Meir Statman, established thought leader in behavioral finance, explores how life well-being, the overarching aim of individuals in the third generation of behavioral finance, is underpinned by financial well-being, and how life well-being extends beyond financial well-being to family, friendship, religion, health, work, and education.

Economics is a subject that is highly relevant to our everyday lives. In the past three centuries, our understanding of economics has been instrumental in lifting the bulk of humanity out of abject poverty and a life that was nothing but nasty, brutish, and short. The study of economics started with the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1700s. Suddenly there were factories. Entrepreneurs organized labor, machines, and power to manufacture products. These large-scale enterprises took investment money (capital) to create. The first person to understand what was going on and put it on a ...

The groundbreaking bestseller from iconic behavioral psychologist Dan Ariely, now the inspiration for the Fall 2023 NBC show The Irrational “A marvelous book that is both thought provoking and highly entertaining, ranging from the power of placebos to the pleasures of Pepsi. Ariely unmasks the...

The economy is always changing, but some things are eternal! Economics for Dummies, 3rd Edition, gives you everything you need to understand our rapidly evolving economy as well as the basics that never change. What's the best way to fight poverty? How can governments boost employment and wage growth? What can be done to protect endangered species and the environment?

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result in “the ultimate guide to thinking about risk” (Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit). “A big favorite among...

Day trading tests more than your strategy—it tests your psychology. Day Trading Psychology explores the mental patterns that can disrupt execution, from bias-driven decision-making to emotional escalation during volatile sessions. Max Koren presents practical, process-focused frameworks to help readers build stronger standards, improve discipline, and reduce rule-breaking under pressure. You’ll learn how to: Spot common mental traps and bias patterns Respond to FOMO, revenge trading, and tilt more effectively Strengthen your routine for planning, execution, and review Build habits that ...

In The Laws of Wealth, psychologist and behavioral finance expert Daniel Crosby offers an accessible and applied take on a discipline that has long tended toward theory at the expense of the practical. Listeners are treated to real, actionable guidance as the promise of behavioral finance is realized and practical applications for everyday investors are delivered.