Behavioural finance
Behavioural finance is a subfield of behavioural economics. It argues that when people make financial decisions like investing, they are not nearly as rational as traditional finance theory predicts.
Mainstream theory make assumptions in its models that people are rational and free from emotion or the effects of culture and social relations. But behaviourists think that people make financial decisions based on emotions and cognitive biases.
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