At the Money: Why Self-Insight Is So Important

How well do you understand yourself? For investors, it is an
important question. We're co-conspirators in self-deception and
this prevents us from having accurate self-knowledge. This does
not lead to good results in the markets.  To explain,
Barry Ritholtz welcomes David Dunning to the podcast. Dunning is
a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan.
Dunning’s research focuses on decision-making in various
settings. In work on economic games, he explores how choices
commonly presumed to be economic in nature actually hinge more on
psychological factors, such as social norms and emotion.


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