Negotiations and pricing can feel far more complicated than they should, because once a number is mentioned first, it often becomes the mental reference point …
How to Build Financial Habits That Stick: Using Behavioral Science to Automate Good Decisions?
If personal finance has ever felt strangely difficult despite your best intentions, you are not alone, and that is exactly where behavioural science becomes useful. …
Understanding the Sunk Cost Fallacy: Why You Keep Pouring Money into Lost Causes
It can be surprisingly hard to walk away from something you have already paid for, especially when the numbers, emotions, and “just one more try” …
The Psychology of Spending: How Emotional Triggers Lead to Impulse Purchases
Spending rarely happens in a straight line, because money decisions are often influenced by stress, mood, identity, and habit long before you reach the checkout …
Confirmation Bias and Your Investments: Why You See Only What You Want to See
When money feels complicated, the human brain often takes a shortcut, and that shortcut can be costly. Confirmation bias is one of the most common …
Overcoming Loss Aversion: Why Letting Go of Losing Investments Is So Hard
Loss aversion is one of those money psychology ideas that can feel abstract until you are staring at an investment that is clearly underwater and …
Mental Accounting: the Hidden Way You Categorize Money That Undermines Your Budget
Mental accounting is one of those personal finance habits that feels sensible on the surface, yet quietly makes budget planning harder than it needs to …
The Endowment Effect: Why You Overvalue What You Already Own and How It Hurts Your Finances
The endowment effect can feel surprisingly personal, because it sits at the point where money management, emotion, and identity all blur together. You may know, …
Anchoring Bias in Negotiations and Pricing: How the First Number Sticks in Your Head
Negotiations and pricing can feel far more complicated than they should, because once a number is mentioned first, it often becomes the mental reference point …
How to Build Financial Habits That Stick: Using Behavioral Science to Automate Good Decisions?
If personal finance has ever felt strangely difficult despite your best intentions, you are not alone, and that is exactly where behavioural science becomes useful. …