Emotional Finance: The Role of the Unconscious in Financial Decisions

Behavioral Finance: Investors, Corporations, and Markets

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 95-112

  Taffler, Richard J ^a   Tuckett, David A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH PSYCHOANALYTICAL SOCIETY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biased judgments; Emotional finance; Sigmund freud; Traditional finance; Unconscious

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886154826     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118258415.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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