Can your brain influence your investment accounts? The study of behavioral economics would suggest that it could. Behavioral economics is a psychological study of how cognitive and emotional factors ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. While most people have likely never heard of loss aversion, the concept — arising in the social sciences some four decades ago — is among the most ...

The US economy has been throwing off good economic signals for months now, including a steady decline in inflation. Yet Americans' dour mood hasn't budged, and President Biden's economic ratings are ...

One of the more well-known behavioral biases is loss aversion. Loss aversion is a common trait people display where they feel the pain of losing money much more acutely than the pleasure from gains.

Women are less willing to take risks than men because they are more sensitive to the pain of any losses they might incur than any gains they might make, new research from the University of Bath School ...

Behavioral finance makes it easier for us to catch ourselves in the act of emotional investing in real time. It's a way to ...

Loss aversion, one of the major behavioral finance biases, is often defined as the pain of losing an amount of money exceeding the pleasure of gaining that same amount of money. It also refers to the ...

Social interactions lead to outcomes for oneself and others, which can be gains or losses. Yet, it is unclear how exactly people’s social decisions are affected by whether an outcome is above or below ...