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The Psychology of Women Investors

2017
The role of financial decision maker in a household has evolved over time. Decades ago, women held traditional roles of caregiver, housekeeper, and wife. Today, more women are pursuing higher education and female professionals and entrepreneurs are making great strides in business.
Margauerita M. Cheng, Sameer S. Somal
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Neurofinance: Bridging Psychology, Neurology, and Investor Behavior

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to catalog some of the important findings from the fields of psychology and neurology, and to show potential implications for economics, with particular emphasis on financial markets. The blending of these fields is developing a new sub-field of neuroeconomics known as neurofinance.
Steven G. Sapra, Paul J. Zak
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Socio-Psychological Motives of Socially Responsible Investors

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
The 2008/2009 World Financial Crisis underlined the importance of social responsibility for the sustainable functioning of economic markets. Heralding an age of novel heterodox economic thinking, the call for integrating social facets into mainstream economic models has reached unprecedented momentum. Financial Social Responsibility bridges the finance
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Information and the Psychology of Investor Behaviour

Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 1994
In behavioural psychology the relationship between the information provided by a stimulus and an individual’s reaction thereto is widely accepted as parabolic and commonly referred to as a Wundt curve. The present paper invokes this relationship in order to examine the apparent failure of the efficient markets model as a paradigm for describing ...
Trevor W. Chamberlain, Lewis D. Johnson
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Psychological Characteristics of the Individual Investor

ICFA Continuing Education Series, 1987
This presentation comes from the Asset Allocation for the Individual Investor conference held in Los Angeles, California, on May 12-13, 1986 and Atlanta, Georgia, on June 4-5, 1986.
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Investor attention, psychological anchors, and stock return predictability

Journal of Financial Economics, 2012
Abstract Motivated by psychological evidence on limited investor attention and anchoring, we propose two proxies for the degree to which traders under- and overreact to news, namely, the nearness to the Dow 52-week high and the nearness to the Dow historical high, respectively.
Jun Li, Jianfeng Yu
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THE EFFECTS OF INVESTORS 'PSYCHOLOGICAL PRESENTATIONS ON INVESTOR BEHAVIOR

2020
Investors can make irrational decisions while making an investment decision, under the influence of behavioral bias. In this study, a total of 4 behavioral trends were examined, such as investor's behavior, "overconfidence", "affinity bias", "avoiding loss / regret" and "herd behavior".
BAŞCI, Eşref Savaş, KARACA, Süleyman Serdar, GÜLER, Elif   +2 more
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Behavioral Finance and Investor Psychology

International Scientific Journal of Engineering and Management
Abstract: Behavioral finance is a field that examines how psychological influences affect the financial decisions of individuals and the functioning of markets. Unlike traditional theories, which assume investors are always rational and markets are efficient, behavioral finance acknowledges that emotions, biases, and social factors often lead to ...
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Investor Psychology and Tests of Factor Pricing Models

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
We provide a model with overconfident risk neutral investors, and therefore no risk premia, in which a price-based portfolio such as HML earns positive expected returns and loads on fundamental macroeconomic variables. Furthermore, loadings on such portfolios are proxies for mispricing, and therefore forecast cross-sectional returns, even after ...
Kent D. Daniel, David A. Hirshleifer, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam   +2 more
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INVESTOR PSYCHOLOGY VS. SPECULATOR PSYCHOLOGY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

International Journal of Management, Economics and Commerce
This study delves into the psychological distinctions between investors and speculators, with a focus on their decision-making processes and behavioral biases. Investors generally display traits such as patience, risk aversion, and a long-term perspective, whereas speculators often exhibit high-risk tolerance, impulsivity, and a short-term focus.
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