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How do biases affect financial decisions?
How Do Biases Affect Financial Decisions? The Illusion of Rational Money A person reviews their investment portfolio late in the evening. Numbers move across the screen. Some positions are green, others red. The decisions behind each position feel deliberate, even analytical. Yet when retracing the path that led here, something less orderly often appears. A recent news story influenced a...

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Michael Pokrovski

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How do cognitive biases affect decision-making?
How Do Cognitive Biases Affect Decision-Making? The Quiet Distortion Beneath Every Choice A manager selects a candidate. An investor commits capital. A patient agrees to a treatment. Each decision feels deliberate, reasoned, and grounded in evidence. Yet beneath this surface of deliberation, a quieter process is often at work. Cognitive biases shape what is noticed, how it is...

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Michael Pokrovski

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2026-06-09 06:20:22 -

How do cognitive biases affect investing?
How Do Cognitive Biases Affect Investing? Investing as a Psychological Process Investing is often described as a rational activity. In theory, it involves: Analyzing data Estimating future value Managing risk Making optimal allocations In practice, investing is also a psychological process. It involves interpreting uncertainty, reacting to changing prices, and...

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Michael Pokrovski

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2026-06-08 21:04:40 -

How many cognitive biases are there?
How Many Cognitive Biases Are There? The Question That Sounds Precise but Isn’t A student of decision-making opens a list of cognitive biases. Availability bias. Anchoring. Confirmation bias. Loss aversion. Framing. Overconfidence. The list continues. Then expands. Then branches. At some point, the question naturally arises: how many cognitive biases are there? It feels like a...

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Michael Pokrovski

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2026-06-09 05:14:36 -

What are cognitive biases?
What Are Cognitive Biases? The Invisible Patterns Behind Everyday Thinking A doctor reviews a patient's symptoms. An investor studies market data. A voter reads the latest headline. A manager evaluates a job candidate. All believe they are seeing reality as it is. And most of the time, they are wrong—not because they lack intelligence, expertise, or effort, but because the mind...

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Michael Pokrovski

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2026-06-08 20:56:57 -

What are cognitive biases?
What Are Cognitive Biases? The Quiet Distortions Inside Clear Thinking A person is asked a simple question: “Which is more likely: a dramatic event, or a dramatic event explained in detail?” Most people choose the second option. It feels more plausible. More complete. More “real.” But logically, this cannot be correct. Adding detail cannot increase probability....

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Michael Pokrovski

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2026-06-08 20:33:55 -

What did behavioral economists discover?
What Did Behavioral Economists Discover? The Quiet Collapse of a Perfect Model For much of the twentieth century, economics was built on an elegant assumption: humans behave like rational agents. They gather information, process it consistently, and choose the option that maximizes utility. The model was not meant to describe people perfectly. It was meant to simplify reality. And for a...

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What is hindsight bias?
What Is Hindsight Bias? The Illusion That the Past Was Predictable After an election result is announced, people say they “saw it coming.” After a stock market crash, they insist the signs were obvious. After a relationship ends, they feel they always knew it would not last. The event, once it occurs, seems almost inevitable. Yet before it happened, uncertainty was real. This...

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2026-06-09 05:39:08 -

What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
What Is the Dunning-Kruger Effect? The Confidence That Arrives Before Competence A person completes a short online test on a complex topic. They perform poorly. But when asked to evaluate their performance, they express strong confidence. They believe they did well—perhaps even above average. Meanwhile, individuals with significantly better performance tend to be more cautious in...

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2026-06-09 06:01:17 -

Why do investors make emotional decisions?
Why Do Investors Make Emotional Decisions? The Myth of the Purely Rational Investor An investor opens a trading app. A portfolio flashes green and red. Prices move in real time. Decisions that look like calculations are made in seconds. But beneath the numbers, something less mechanical is often guiding action. A sudden drop triggers panic. A rapid gain creates excitement. A long...

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