Nathan Reiff has been writing expert articles and news about financial topics such as investing and trading, cryptocurrency, ETFs, and alternative investments on Investopedia since 2016. Samantha (Sam ...

Home bias leads investors to favor domestic stocks, often ignoring the advantages of global diversification. Learn how this ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Human beings like to surround themselves with people like themselves—people with similar values, personalities, interests and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bryce Hoffman writes about leadership, strategy, and decision making. Among the many threats to decision making, few are as ...

Bias is a hot topic. Many people have expressed concern about bias in admissions, hiring, policing, sentencing, social media moderation, and many other aspects of society. The worry is that biases ...

Human bias, when shaped by values and informed by experience, can be a form of wisdom that protects us from making poor ...

This is the seventh article in a series focusing on the Big Five personality traits and how they relate to the behavioral biases of investors. Over the years, I have followed a debate between the ...

Unit bias, sometimes referred to as “unit preference” or “unit-of-account bias,” is a cognitive bias that most cryptocurrency founders exploit to attract investors. It refers to the tendency of ...

Imagine that you have tried to reach a friend with whom you have an ambivalent relationship by phone or email, leaving messages, yet receiving no call in return. In a situation like this, it is easy ...