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Behavioral finance

Behavioral finance documents how real people systematically deviate from rational calculation: overconfidence, loss aversion, herd mentality, and preference reversal aren't character flaws but predictable patterns emerging from cognitive architecture evolved for survival, not portfolio optimization. Accounting for these patterns in your own decisions beats pretending you're exempt from them.

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