Fast Company recently wrote that EI or emotional intelligence is beginning to be considered along SAT scores in college admittance - at Yale no less! Likewise, the New York Times reported on how emotional awareness tactics are helping discouraged job seekers find work. What's up with this? Why is emotion…
Did you know that no one knows for sure how many "basic" (irreducible) emotions there are? Many scientists have long believed in six, a new study indicates four and a growing body of work by the teams emerging from Lisa Feldman Barrett's labs makes a very credible case for only…
What phenomenon does this partial quote describe? “...people all of whose human relationships have the same outcome: such as the benefactor who is abandoned in anger after a time by each of his protégés, however much they may otherwise differ from one another, ...or the man whose friendships all end…
As I prepare for The Galtere Institute's Behavioral Finance symposium, I am doing what I always do before I speak - catching up on the latest studies on emotion and risk decision making. For example, did you know that there is actually still much disagreement in science about what emotion…
Price action in the markets is "the tell" - as they used to say. (It seems that is one of those words that has come and gone). But the problem is this said 'tell', tells you different things - it can be interpreted many ways. It is what is known…
Shull's first article "What Would Freud Say? Stroll Down Freud's Mental Path to Profits", December 2004. When I wrote this I had NO idea whatsoever that I would ever publicly write or say ANOTHER word on the psychology of trading. It was just an idea I had based on re-writing…
Coates, Shull, other experts weigh in on risk professionals’ attention to their discipline Thursday, May 02, 2013, Risk Professional Magazine (published by the Global Association of Risk Professionals - GARP) By Katherine Heires Over the past 20 years, advances in brain imaging technology and other methods of analyzing neural activity…
Originally posted on Business Insider, April 17. Conventional wisdom in trading psychology used to depend on two primary tenets – discipline and ‘control your emotions’. But that was before neuroscience started putting traders, poker players and other risk-gamers into brain scanners. Now that we know that all decisions depend on…
In response to the post and discussion here by @ppearlman, @andrewunknown asks: Phil's last line: "So, even awareness is overrated. Its a start but really its about your choices. Its where the training begins, not ends." Denise: "What is standing in between the "knowing" and the "doing"?" These quotes rather…
Last Sunday, the most successful trader I knew from the Chicago Options pits texted me this - "Self-examination is the key to noodle making and other accomplishments." Now you should know two things - 1) this guy NEVER texts - we have been friends for going on 20 years and…
