When you think of building wealth and creating a sustainable financial future, you likely imagine the numbers of your bank account acquiring more commas. To get those commas, you anticipate having to ...

Making decisions in uncertain situations is part of daily life. New research from the University of Minnesota Medical School has uncovered that anxiety and apathy - two common but distinct emotional ...

Historically, emotions have been viewed as irrational, unstable or primitive—hardly the stuff of sound decision-making. Enlightenment thinkers like Descartes and Kant privileged reason as the highest ...

Letting raw emotion drive financial decisions sounds like a recipe for disaster. But Jennifer Lerner, the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy, Decision Science, and Management at the ...

Behavioral finance is the study of how psychology affects investor behavior and financial markets. The study of behavioral finance relies on the assumption that investors and other financial ...

Chandra is an emergency physician and global health policy specialist. Hoover is a former federal worker, sociobehavioral researcher, and global health technical specialist. We both lost our jobs as ...

We make very different choices depending on what takes the dominant role in decision-making: the head or the heart. Behavioral economists have long relished exposing our illogic when it comes to ...

You’re sitting in your favorite restaurant, about to order. One dish feels safe because it’s your usual, the comfort you can count on. The other is new, maybe a little spicy, daring you to try. Your ...