Modules / Module 13

Psychology & Behavioral Finance

Why you lose money even when you're "right"

Understand affect, confirmation bias, anchoring, overconfidence, loss aversion, and how to build systems that counter your own cognitive biases.

Chapters

  1. The Affect Heuristic: How Emotions Skew Probabilities
  2. Confirmation Bias: Only Seeing What You Want to See
  3. Anchoring: First Prices Stick in Your Mind
  4. Overconfidence Effect: Why You Think You're Better Than You Are
  5. Loss Aversion: Why Losses Hurt Twice as Much as Gains Feel Good
  6. The Endowment Effect: Overvaluing What You Already Hold
  7. Recency Bias: Overweighting the Last Thing You Heard
  8. Hindsight Bias: "I Knew It All Along"
  9. How to Build Systems That Counter Your Biases