Behavioral Economist

Why are rich kids so good at the marshmallow test?

Why Rich Kids Are So Good at the Marshmallow Test Affluence—not willpower—seems to be what’s behind some kids’ capacity to delay gratification.

The joys of joint evaluation.

Want to Debias Hiring? Change What Hiring Managers Focus On - Behavioral Scientist Research on the "decoy effect" reveals one way bias sneaks into hiring decisions. It also suggests a solution.

People who are high in attachment anxiety may use money to get attention and for example, buy expensive gifts to try to win a partner's love. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200225114410.htm

How your romantic attachment style affects your finances, well-being Attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance can both have negative consequences for well-being due, at least in part, to financial reasons, researchers found.

What biases do stock traders succumb to? https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/12/29/trading-bots-is-it-game-over-for-human-financial-analysts-syndication/

Trading bots: Is it game over for human financial analysts? It’s often said that a trader’s worst enemy is himself. Behavioral biases tend to throw otherwise rational trading strategies out of whack as anxieties over loss aversion, the fear of missing out, or even overconfidence take control—ultimat

To improve global health, tax the things that are killing us. To***co, alcohol and obesity kill over 14 million people each year.

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Behavioral economics is a work in progress and...

There Is More to Behavioral Economics Than Biases and Fallacies - Behavioral Scientist Is a preoccupation with biases hindering behavioral economics?

Hire better by dissecting your hiring candidates.

How to Identify Talent: Five Lessons from the NFL Draft - Behavioral Scientist If there is one consistent yet underappreciated principle for making good hires, it's that process beats technology.

Time4learning and Khan Academy work especially well because of their animated/digital format https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191219090736.htm

When it's story time, animated books are better for learning Researchers found that digital storybooks that animate upon a child's vocalization offer beneficial learning opportunities, especially for children with less developed attention regulation.

Why I love London School of Economics - Understanding & Influence

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You achieved your goal and...you experience arrival fallacy and its just not quite what you expected. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/smarter-living/you-accomplished-something-great-so-now-what.html

You Accomplished Something Great. So Now What? (Published 2019) Career success doesn’t always equal happiness, so here’s how to deal when achieving a goal leaves you feeling empty inside.