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Emotion, risk and market behaviors

Anxiety

The Errors in "13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do"

Denise K. Shull M.A. on November 25, 2013

The wildly popular "13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do" may inspire but it is as likely to weaken its adherents as it is to make them stronger.

The wildly popular "13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do" may inspire but it is as likely to weaken its adherents as it is to make them stronger.

Creativity

Jonah Lehrer's Ironic Imagination

Denise K. Shull M.A. on July 31, 2012

Does it strike anyone else as ironic that Jonah Lehrer wrote a book entitled How We Decide and then went on to make the stupendously reprehensible decision to fabricate material in a book called Imagine?

Does it strike anyone else as ironic that Jonah Lehrer wrote a book entitled How We Decide and then went on to make the stupendously reprehensible decision to fabricate material in a book called Imagine?

Career

How Do Our Minds Really Work?

Denise K. Shull M.A. on June 27, 2012

It's time for a whole new integrated view of ourselves.

It's time for a whole new integrated view of ourselves.

Anger

Feelings Matter—Even in Investing Decisions

Denise K. Shull M.A. on March 12, 2012

It's a neuroscientific fact that we need emotion to make a decision. If we don't have it, even the simplest choices end up in a never-ending loop of pros and cons. It's the emotion that conveys the meaning of something.

It's a neuroscientific fact that we need emotion to make a decision. If we don't have it, even the simplest choices end up in a never-ending loop of pros and cons. It's the emotion that conveys the meaning of something.

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