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To-Do List Out Of Control? Try These 10 Stress-Busters

Brett F. Whysel — Tue, 25 Dec 2018 16:46:15 +0000

Do you get stressed around the holidays with just too much to do? Many of us feel more stress, anxiety and depression during the holidays. In addition to the normal demands of running a start-up and teaching, I’ve got presents to buy, travel to plan and a child to get to college. At last count, I ... Read more

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Can Financial Education & Coaching Improve Your Health?

Brett F. Whysel — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 16:07:17 +0000

Can financial education/coaching break the financial stress, declining health cycle? In a previous article, I outlined three vicious cycles affecting financial stress, physical and mental health. They are vicious because, once financial stress occurs, the health impacts can lead to yet more stress, which can further impair health, causing additional financial stress as the cycle begins ... Read more

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3 Vicious Cycles: Links Among Financial, Physical and Mental Health

Brett F. Whysel — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 19:21:08 +0000

Feedback loops are powerful forces of nature. Melting polar ice caps reduce the earth’s reflectivity, causing it to absorb more heat from the sun, which accelerates the melting. The cumulative, accelerating aspects of such loops make it imperative to break the cycle before it gets out of control. Below, I identify three feedback loops among financial ... Read more

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Interview: Michelle Gilmore on Behavior-Centered Design

Brett F. Whysel — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 19:00:22 +0000

We were delighted to have Michelle Gilmore, Design Director and Founder of design firm Neo, speak at a recent Behavioral Economics-NYC meetup about her cutting-edge work in the design of products, services and systems. Her presentation led to a lot of interest and discussion among those who were there and particularly among those who missed out. ... Read more

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The BSPA Conference: Behavioral Insights for Better Policies

Brett F. Whysel — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:16:27 +0000

I attended the Behavioral Science and Policy Association conference last month and learned a great deal about the latest thinking in nudges, choice architecture, social norms, persuasion and how these can improve policies and decisions that people make. I went hoping to get some good ideas to apply to my company, Decision Fish, and to ... Read more

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The Behavioral Finance Symposium: Simple Fixes & Deep Challenges

Brett F. Whysel — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 15:00:16 +0000

I recently attended the Behavioral Finance Symposium at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. The speakers were academics and practitioners speaking on the behavioral challenges to good investment and trading decisions. The crowd seemed to be mostly left-coast traders, investment managers and consultants. Many of the talks were thought provoking and left me with a ... Read more

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Six Ways to Avoid Regret

Brett F. Whysel — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 12:50:42 +0000

I wish I had picked a different airline or maybe shelled out more money for a better seat. (I’m writing this squeezed into a coach seat near the lavatory on a six-hour flight to attend the Behavioral Finance Symposium in San Francisco.) I wish I had known six months ago that people were much more ... Read more

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Good Behavior? What I Learned at the Behavioral Summit (and How it Freaked Me Out a Little)

Brett F. Whysel — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 16:54:56 +0000

I just attended the best conference ever. And I’ve been to a lot of them. The ideas42 Behavioral Summit 2016 was billed as offering “…an inside look at the latest developments from the field of behavioral science and how these insights drive innovation in the private sector.” Indeed it went beyond that, touching on politics, ... Read more

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Selling my Darlings

Brett F. Whysel — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:20:16 +0000

Let’s do something completely different this week. How about a photo-essay? When I began my study of decision-making, I assumed that the coldly rational, quantitatively financial-economic approach was the best. How else can you avoid making the systematic errors that our cognitive biases can cause? I’ve since learned that emotion, intuition, empathy and even unconscious ... Read more

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Interview With a Skeptic

Brett F. Whysel — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 19:09:49 +0000

Decision Fish Interviews Kim Stephenson, an occupational psychologist. Perhaps the greatest benefit of the World Wide Web, is contained in the first two words. Decision Fish’s blog has readership worldwide, self-selected to be some of the most thoughtful and smartest people anywhere. Kim Stephenson, an occupational psychologist from the UK is one of those people. Here’s a ... Read more

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