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Are cognitive biases contagious?

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  So cognitive biases are the beating heart of behavioral economics and finance. But where do they come from? Are they innate or learned? Or are they epigenetic, some complex combination of the two where environmental factors trigger a gene for one or more of them? But there’s another possibility, namely that you catch them. Yep just like a co...

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Yo! - Is Exercise the Secret to Silicon Valley’s Success?

I’ve just been reading about the Yo app. You know the one whose only job is to text you the word “Yo”. It doesn’t get much briefer than that. But who knows. Maybe it will get a billion dollar valuation too and make me at least look like a total fool. There are lots of theories about Silicon Valley’s success. Crazy entrepreneurs, risk-taking VCs, im...

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People who Exercise Win More Lotteries

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