This is the ninth article in the Behavioral Finance and Macroeconomics series, exploring the effect behavior has on markets and the economy as a whole and how advisors who understand this relationship ...

Recency bias is the tendency for people to overweight new information or events, projecting them into the future while ignoring long-term evidence. This bias causes many investors to engage in ...

Last week, I introduced the idea of “dumb” in investing: the tendency for very smart people to do very dumb things with their portfolios. We looked at how emotions can override a well-thought-out plan ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! RAND Corporation Strategy Director Jennifer Kavanaugh discussed the ideas of cognitive bias and examples such as motivated reasoning, recency bias ...

Check your emotions -- and biases -- at the door before buying Newsmax stock. "Confirmation" and "recency" biases can cause investors to make poor decisions. If you want to spin the cable-news company ...