Asked by Alina Avdeyev on Jun 25, 2024

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Provide three categories of cognitive errors when making investment decisions. Expand on each category.

Cognitive Errors

Mistakes in reasoning, evaluating, remembering, or other cognitive activities, often occurring due to biases or logical fallacies.

Investment Decisions

The process of choosing among different investment alternatives and allocating resources to maximize shareholder value.

  • Explore the outcomes stemming from different cognitive mistakes in investment and financial management.
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sanchit gangwalJun 27, 2024
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Errors in reasoning are often called cognitive errors. They include such errors as: (1) biases, (2) framing effects, and (3) heuristics. These categories can be expanded further:
Biases: overconfidence, over-optimism, confirmation Bias.
Framing effects: loss aversion, house money.
Heuristics: the affect heuristic, the representativeness heuristic, representativeness and randomness, the gambler's fallacy.