Behavioural finance challenges the long-held assumption that investors are consistently rational. Decades of research now ...

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A leading large language model displays behaviors that resemble a hallmark of human psychology: cognitive dissonance. Anyone who interacts with an AI chatbot for the first time is struck by how human ...

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In 1934, an 8.0-magnitude earthquake hit eastern India, killing thousands and devastating several cities. Curiously, in areas that were spared the worst destruction, stories soon spread that an even ...

You’ve undoubtedly heard of the concept of cognitive dissonance, a term from social psychology that frequently makes its way into the media, including numerous references in popular movies and ...