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Mon Dec 1

• Modern Love - Why I Love My Husband but not Sex - NYTimes.com: Serious cognitive dissonance here

Thu Nov 27

• What is Behavioral Finance? by Victor Ricciardi: Victor Ricciardi and Helen K. Simon. What is Behavioral Finance?. Business, Education & Technology Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 2000, 1-9. While conventional academic finance emphasizes theories such as Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) and the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), the emerging field of behavioral finance investigates the cognitive factors and emotional issues that impact the decision-makin g process of individuals, groups, and organizations. This paper presents an introduction to some general principles of behavioral finance including: overconfidence , cognitive dissonance, regret theory, and prospect theory. Also, this article provides strategies to assist individuals to resolve these mental errors and emotional pitfalls by recommending some important investment approaches for those who invest in stocks and mutual funds. Note: This paper serves as a very good introductory reading for an undergraduate class in finance and economics.

Mon Nov 17

• Fighting Cognitive Dissonance & The Lies We Tell Ourselves - World of Psychology

Sun Nov 9

• Passion of the Weiss " Blog Archive " The Bradley Effect: Musicians And Their Campaign Contributions: Really really interesting examination of whether or not musicians who endorsed Obama actually gave money to the campaign. Dunno how dead accurate this research is though.

Fri Nov 7

• PsyBlog: How and Why We Lie to Ourselves: Cognitive Dissonance

Tue Oct 28

• The Dilbert Blog: On the Other Hand

Mon Oct 27

• Annals of Sociology: Red Sex, Blue Sex: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker: Money quote: "For too long, the conventional wisdom has been that social conservatives are the upholders of family values, whereas liberals are the proponents of a polymorphous selfishness. This isn?t true, and, every once in a while, liberals might point that out."

Mon Oct 20

• Cognitive dissonance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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