Effect of Representativeness Bias, Availability Bias and Anchoring Bias on Investment Decisions
Journal of Economics and BusinessThis study aims to determine the effect of three types of financial behavioral bias, namely representativeness bias, availability bias, and anchoring bias on investment decisions. This study uses a quantitative method with a purposive sampling technique.
Muhammad Bayu Aji Sumantri +2 more
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“I Think I Do but I Don’t”: Heightened (Breast) Cancer Concern as a Function of Availability Bias
WomenBackground: Women report a heightened concern of (breast) cancer, relative to other chronic conditions. This experimental study investigated whether such heightened concern may be a function of availability bias.
Aldo Aguirre-Camacho +2 more
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A case of availability bias for COVID‐19 causing scrub typhus diagnostic errors [PDF]
Journal of General and Family Medicine, 2022 Shiichi Ihara +2 more
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Availability Bias Causes Misdiagnoses by Physicians: Direct Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial [PDF]
Internal Medicine, 2020 Li P, Cheng ZY, Liu GL.
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Specific Disease Knowledge as Predictor of Susceptibility to Availability Bias in Diagnostic Reasoning: a Randomized Controlled Experiment. [PDF]
J Gen Intern Med, 2021 BACKGROUND: Bias in reasoning rather than knowledge gaps has been identified as the origin of most diagnostic errors. However, the role of knowledge in counteracting bias is unclear.OBJECTIVE: To examine whether knowledge of discriminating features ...
Mamede S +6 more
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'Immunising' physicians against availability bias in diagnostic reasoning: a randomised controlled experiment. [PDF]
BMJ Qual Saf, 2020 Background Diagnostic errors have often been attributed to biases in physicians' reasoning. Interventions to ' immunise' physicians against bias have focused on improving reasoning processes and have largely failed. Objective To investigate the effect of
Mamede S +8 more
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PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS AND INVESTMENT DECISIONS IN THE NIGERIA CAPITAL MARKET [PDF]
Oradea Journal of Business and Economics, 2021 This study examines Behavioral Factors and Investment Decision Making in the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). Thus, the research question is what are the psychological factors affecting investment decisions in the Nigerian capital market.
Esther Ikavbo Evbayiro-Osagie +1 more
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Desaturation during the pandemic: Covid or cognitive bias?
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022 The coronavirus pandemic has put an unprecedented strain on our health care system. An urgent need for timely and accurate diagnosis coupled with an inordinate caseload and myriad overlapping signs and symptoms with other differentials is leaving ...
Ritika Nangia +2 more
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Temporal and spatial variability in availability bias has consequences for marine bird abundance estimates during the non‐breeding season [PDF]
Ecological Solutions and EvidenceTo effectively monitor how marine ecosystems are being reshaped by anthropogenic pressures, we require understanding of species abundances and distributions.
Ruth E. Dunn +7 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Loggerhead turtles are a globally vulnerable species of marine turtle. Broad-scale patterns of distribution and abundance can provide regional managers a tool to effectively conserve and manage this species at basin and sub-basin scales.
Andrew DiMatteo +23 more
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