The Behavioral Biases of Individuals
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Key Points
- Cognitive Errors: Faulty reasoning, can be corrected.
- Emotional Biases: Based on feelings/impulse, harder to correct.
- Cognitive Errors are split into Belief Perseverance and Processing Errors.
Key Points
- Conservatism: Under-reaction to new information.
- Confirmation: Ignoring contradictory evidence.
- Representativeness: Base-rate neglect and sample-size neglect.
- Illusion of Control: Leads to under-diversification.
- Hindsight: Overestimating prediction accuracy ex-post.
Key Points
- Anchoring: Sticking too close to initial numbers.
- Mental Accounting: Ignoring correlations by bucketing funds.
- Framing: Decisions influenced by gain/loss context.
- Availability: Recency or resonance drives probability estimates.
Key Points
- Loss Aversion: Pain of loss > pleasure of gain.
- Overconfidence: Underestimating risk, overestimating returns.
- Self-Control: Prioritizing current consumption.
- Endowment: Overvaluing owned assets.
- Regret Aversion: Herding or excessive conservatism.
Key Points
- Momentum: Positive correlation with recent past prices.
- Bubbles: Driven by overconfidence and dismissal of contradictory info.
- Crashes: Under-reaction due to anchoring and cognitive dissonance.
Questions
Which category of behavioral biases is primarily characterized by faulty cognitive reasoning?
View answer and explanationWhich type of behavioral bias is generally considered harder to correct or eliminate?
View answer and explanationConservatism bias is best described as a tendency to do which of the following?
View answer and explanationIn Bayesian terms, an investor exhibiting conservatism bias will tend to do what?
View answer and explanationWhich bias involves looking for and noticing what confirms prior beliefs while ignoring what contradicts them?
View answer and explanationAn employee holding a disproportionate amount of their investment assets in their employing company's stock due to a belief in its favorable prospects is an example of which bias?
View answer and explanationWhich of the following is a sub-type of Representativeness bias?
View answer and explanationSample-size neglect occurs when an investor does which of the following?
View answer and explanationWhich bias leads investors to believe they can influence outcomes when they actually cannot?
View answer and explanationA common consequence of Illusion of Control bias is which of the following?
View answer and explanationHindsight bias refers to the tendency to view past events as having been:
View answer and explanationWhich question can help an investor overcome Hindsight bias?
View answer and explanationAnchoring and Adjustment bias is classified as which type of bias?
View answer and explanationIn the context of Anchoring and Adjustment bias, individuals generally adjust their anchors:
View answer and explanationMental Accounting bias involves dividing money into accounts that:
View answer and explanationA primary drawback of Mental Accounting is that:
View answer and explanationFraming bias is an information-processing bias where a person answers a question differently based on:
View answer and explanationAvailability bias occurs when people estimate the probability of an outcome based on:
View answer and explanationWhich of the following is a source of Availability bias related to how closely a situation parallels a personal situation?
View answer and explanationLoss-aversion bias leads people to typically:
View answer and explanationA specific behavior resulting from loss aversion is:
View answer and explanationOverconfidence bias is often intensified when combined with which other bias?
View answer and explanationWhich of the following is a common consequence of Overconfidence bias?
View answer and explanationSelf-control bias is characterized by a failure to:
View answer and explanationWhich bias explains why an investor might choose to do nothing rather than make a warranted change?
View answer and explanationEndowment bias involves valuing an asset more when:
View answer and explanationTo detect Endowment bias regarding inherited securities, an advisor should ask:
View answer and explanationRegret-aversion bias can cause investors to be:
View answer and explanationWhich market behavior is characterized by future price behavior correlating with the recent past?
View answer and explanationIn financial bubbles, investors often exhibit symptoms of which bias?
View answer and explanationWhen a market bubble unwinds, under-reaction may occur because investors suffering from cognitive dissonance do what?
View answer and explanationTo overcome Confirmation bias, what should an investor actively seek?
View answer and explanationWhich bias is described as relying on an initial piece of information to make subsequent estimates?
View answer and explanationWhich of the following describes 'Narrow Range of Experience' as a source of Availability bias?
View answer and explanationWhich bias might cause an investor to irrationally bifurcate wealth into 'principal' and 'returns'?
View answer and explanationSelf-attribution bias leads people to:
View answer and explanationWhich of the following is a recommended method to overcome Overconfidence bias?
View answer and explanationRegret-aversion bias has two dimensions regarding actions people take and:
View answer and explanationHerding behavior is often a consequence of which bias?
View answer and explanationCognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort that occurs when:
View answer and explanationWhich bias results in 'Narrow frame of reference'—losing sight of the big picture?
View answer and explanationWhich of the following is a detection/overcoming strategy for Conservatism bias?
View answer and explanationWhich bias may cause an investor to misidentify their risk tolerance because of how the questions were asked?
View answer and explanationThe 'Disposition Effect' (selling winners, holding losers) is primarily a manifestation of which bias?
View answer and explanationWhich bias involves 'Prediction Overconfidence' and 'Certainty Overconfidence'?
View answer and explanationWhat is a recommended strategy to mitigate Self-Control bias?
View answer and explanationIf an investor chooses an investment fund solely based on recent advertising or news coverage, they are likely exhibiting:
View answer and explanationThe tendency of investors to unknowingly maintain portfolios with risk characteristics inappropriate for their circumstances due to inertia is called:
View answer and explanationWhich bias is characterized by constructing financial models that are overly detailed, believing this manages uncertainty?
View answer and explanationWhen assessing risk tolerance, financial market participants (FMPs) should quantify the risk-reducing advantages of diversification to overcome:
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