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Being Conscious About Our Unconscious Biases

QAspire

The term ‘cognitive bias’ was coined by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in 1972 which quite simply means “our tendency to filter information, process facts and arrive at judgments based on our past experiences, likes/dislikes and automatic influences.”. Avoid using generic terms to describe people, situations and things.

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The Business Lessons of the Belmont Stakes

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman , a renowned psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics, developed this concept in the 1970s along with his collaborator, Amos Tversky. In the stock market, for instance, you need bulls and bears, long- and short-term investors, technicians and those who rely on fundamentals.

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The Business Lessons of the Belmont Stakes

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman , a renowned psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics, developed this concept in the 1970s along with his collaborator, Amos Tversky. In the stock market, for instance, you need bulls and bears, long- and short-term investors, technicians and those who rely on fundamentals.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. Back in the ‘60s, people developed the capital asset pricing model [CAPM] as a way to do that. A lot of other stuff that looked at stocks and looked at short periods of time didn’t find much. So that’s problem No. Problem No.

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