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The Motley Fool August 5, 2009 Chris Hill |
A Conversation With Jonah Lehrer Check out our latest podcast, featuring the author of "How We Decide." He focuses on the psychology of investing. |
BusinessWeek July 30, 2009 Ben Levisohn |
Reassesing Investors' Risk Tolerance Investment firms are reworking risk questionnaires to keep investors from losing money. A more accurate psychological reading, the reasoning goes, means investors will be more likely to stick with portfolio strategies -- and advisers. |
BusinessWeek July 30, 2009 Ben Levisohn |
Vetting the Questionnaires To write this article, I filled out many questionnaires about my tolerance for investment risk. Most pegged me as comfortable with moderate risk. |
Popular Mechanics July 27, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
Neuroscientist's Research Holds Clues About Short-Term Memory Last year, Raja Parasuraman was conducting a study of brain function among 650 participants at George Mason University in Virginia, when he stumbled across what he calls a "cognitive superstar." |
Wired July 15, 2009 Cliff Kuang |
Don't Hesitate to Haggle on Craigslist "People routinely refuse offers they think aren't fair, even if it hurts them," says economist Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational. |
Wired July 15, 2009 Clive Thompson |
Don't Work All the Time -- You'll Live to Regret It Our future selves, it seems, will wish we'd been bigger hedonists. |
Reason July 2009 Greg Beato |
The Joys of Brain Scrubbing The advantages of memory deletion in a collectively omniscient world |
The Motley Fool June 25, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Know Yourself and Make More Money Stop doing those things you know you do ... |
Science News July 4, 2009 Rachel Zelkowitz |
Book Review: Play: How It Shapes The Brain, Opens The Imagination, And Invigorates The Soul By Stuart Brown With Christopher Vaughan The drive to play is as natural as the drive for food and sex, the authors of this book convincingly argue. |
Fast Company July 2009 D. Heath & C. Heath |
Why Your Gut Is More Ethical Than Your Brain What if unethical behavior is actually spurred, rather than prevented, by reason? A new study seems to indicate so. |
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