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Cognitive Biases series: Disjunction effects

Expand to see inline the other posts in Cog­ni­tive Biases» Gist When peo­ple do not know with cer­tainty if an event A will occur or not, and if they have to make a deci­sion based on event A occur­ring, then they may post­pone their deci­sion until they know with cer­tainty if A has occurred, even if they would have made …

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Behavioral Economics in Gartner's Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2008

I just noted that “Behav­ioral Eco­nom­ics” have been inte­grated in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerg­ing Tech­nolo­gies. Not sur­pris­ing as I wrote before. Here is the famous graph: It’s actu­ally quite amus­ing how McK­in­sey con­cen­trates on how to build com­pet­i­tive advan­tage and Gart­ner on years to main­stream. Of course, it’s mar­ket­ing BS in one case and so-called analy­sis in the other, …

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Knowledge of cognitive biases needed to sustain competitive advantage

Expand to see inline the other posts in Strate­gic Shifts» The Gist Gist Neu­roe­co­nom­ics, neu­ro­fi­nance, behav­ioral eco­nom­ics and so on… All the fields at the cross­road of cog­ni­tive or neuro– sci­ences and other sci­en­tific dis­ci­plines are increas­ingly pro­duc­tive. The aca­d­e­mics in these fields seek to under­stand how the brain is pro­cess­ing the infor­ma­tion needed to make a deci­sion. As it …

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