Investing Psychology, + Website: The Effects of Behavioral Finance on Investment Choice and Bias

Content: Investing Psychology
 Contents
 Preface
 CHAPTER 1 Sensory Finance
 Beating the Bias Blind Spot
 Illusory Pattern Recognition
 Superstitious Pigeons-and Investors
 The Super Bowl Effect: If It Looks Too Good to Be True, It Is
 Your Financial Horoscope: Forecasting and the Barnum Effect
 Uncertainty: The Unknown Unknowns
 Illusion of Control
 Stocks Aren't Snakes
 Herding
 Salience
 Availability
 Assuming the Serial Position
 Hot Hands
 Financial Memory Syndrome
 Attention!
 The Problem with Linda
 Representation
 The Seven Key Takeaways
 Notes
 CHAPTER 2 Self-Image and Self-Worth. The Introspection IllusionBlind Spot Bias, Revisited
 Rose-Colored Investing
 Past and Present Failures
 Depressed but Wealthy
 Disposed to Lose Money
 Loss Aversion
 Anchored
 Two Strangers
 Hindsight's Not So Wonderful
 Deferral to Authority
 Emotion
 Black Swans
 Dirty Money, Mental Accounting
 A Faint Whisper of Emotion
 Psychologically Numbed
 Martha Stewart's Biases
 Retrospective
 Annual Returns
 Nudged
 Mindfulness
 Be Preoccupied with Failure
 Do Not Simplify Interpretations
 Be Sensitive to Odd Events
 Be Resilient
 Don't Get Too Clever
 The Seven Key Takeaways
 Notes. CHAPTER 3 Situational FinanceDisposition vs. Situation
 Beauty Is in the Eye of the Investor
 Angels or Demons?
 Merely Familiar
 Lemming Time
 Story Time
 Wise Crowds?
 Adaptive Markets
 George Soros's Reflexivity
 Grow Old Quickly
 Speaking Ill
 The Power of Persuasion
 SAD Investors
 Sell in May . . .
 The Mystery of the Vanishing Anomalies
 Tweet and Invest
 Fire!
 The Rise of the Machines
 The Seven Key Takeaways
 Notes
 CHAPTER 4 Social Finance
 Conform-or Die
 Groupthink
 Motivated Reasoning
 Polarized
 A Personal Mission Statement: Social Identity and Beyond
 Gaming the System. You've Been FramedBehavioral Portfolios
 Dividend Dilemmas
 The Language of Lucre
 Embedded Investing
 Financial Theory of Mind
 Trust Me, Reciprocally . . .
 Akerlof's Lemons
 The Peacock's Tail
 Facebooked
 Be Kind to an Old Person
 The Seven Key Takeaways
 Notes
 CHAPTER 5 Professional Bias
 Mutual Fund Madness
 Is Passive Persuasive?
 Losing to the Dark Side
 Forecasting-The Butterfly Effect
 Forecaster Bias
 Feminine Finance
 Trading on a High
 Marriage and Money
 Muddled Modelers
 CEO Pay-Because They're Worth It?
 Corporate Madness
 Buyback Brouhaha
 Oh No, IPO. Your 6 Percent Self-Inflicted Trading TaxExpert Opinion?
 Avoid the Sharpshooters
 The Seven Key Takeaways
 Notes
 CHAPTER 6 Debiasing
 Numbers, Numbers, Numbers
 Losing Momentum
 Mean Reversion
 Short Shift
 Diworsification
 Disconfirm, Disconfirm
 Reverse Polarization
 Expected Value
 Investing in the Rearview Mirror
 Living with Uncertainty
 Sunk by the Titanic Effect
 Changing Your Mind
 Love Your Kids, Not Your Stocks
 Cognitive Repairs
 Satisficing
 The Seven Key Takeaways
 Notes
 CHAPTER 7 Good Enough Investing
 #1: The Rule of Seven
 #2: Homo Sapiens, Tool Maker
 #3: Meta-Methods. #4: Be Skeptical.