Aversion Quote by Daniel Kahneman

“Time and again, we let the fear of loss overpower rational decision-making and often make ourselves worse off just to avoid a potential loss.…

— L. Jon Wertheim

Loss aversion is a really disproportionate anxiety about stuff that doesn't matter very much. So for instance, if you lose $5, you feel really…

— Tim Harford

“we will see, loss aversion operates as a kind of cognitive nudge, pressing us not to make changes, even when”

— Richard H. Thaler

The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human…

— Niall Ferguson

I practice what has come to be called behavioral economics.

— Richard Thaler

“to taking an action that could make life even worse. Psychologists call this “loss aversion.” Research in cognitive”

— Jerome Groopman

“Loss aversion helps produce inertia, meaning a strong desire to stick with your current holdings.”

— Richard H. Thaler

“What we learn from behavior economics is that the moment a metric is created it generates an incentive for people to pursue it.”

— David Amerland

“In trying to make sense of this pessimism, Ridley, like Kahneman, sees a combination of cognitive biases and evolutionary psychology as the core of…

— Peter H. Diamandis

Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much less some…

— Edward Boyden

Economics is (now) about emotion and psychology.

— Robert J. Shiller

One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in.

— Dan Ariely