scholarly journals Can longer gaze duration determine risky investment decisions? An interactive perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiheng Wang ◽  
Yanping Liu

Can longer gaze duration determine risky investment decisions? Recent studies have tested how gaze influences people’s decisions and the boundary of the gaze effect. The current experiment used adaptive gaze-contingent manipulation by adding a self-determined option to test whether longer gaze duration can determine risky investment decisions. The results showed that both the expected value of each option and the gaze duration influenced people’s decisions. This result was consistent with the attentional diffusion model (aDDM) proposed by Krajbich et al. (2010), which suggests that gaze can influence the choice process by amplify the value of the choice. Therefore, the gaze duration would influence the decision when people do not have clear preference.The result also showed that the similarity between options and the computational difficulty would also influence the gaze effect. This result was inconsistent with prior research that used option similarities to represent difficulty, suggesting that both similarity between options and computational difficulty induce different underlying mechanisms of decision difficulty.

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie M. Smith ◽  
Ian Krajbich

When making decisions, people tend to choose the option they have looked at more. An unanswered question is how attention influences the choice process: whether it amplifies the subjective value of the looked-at option or instead adds a constant, value-independent bias. To address this, we examined choice data from six eye-tracking studies ( Ns = 39, 44, 44, 36, 20, and 45, respectively) to characterize the interaction between value and gaze in the choice process. We found that the summed values of the options influenced response times in every data set and the gaze-choice correlation in most data sets, in line with an amplifying role of attention in the choice process. Our results suggest that this amplifying effect is more pronounced in tasks using large sets of familiar stimuli, compared with tasks using small sets of learned stimuli.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Wendy Wendy

                                                        ABSTRACTThis research aims to analyze psychological biases that occur when investors make risky investment decisions. There are five behavioral factors analyzed (herding, overconfidence, disposition effect, conservatism, and availability). Financial literacy is used as moderator in analyzing the effect of those bahaviors towards risky investment decisions. This research examines four econometric equations in explaining financial literacy as a moderator. Interaction effect testing is carried out using moderating variable regression. The results show that psychological biases occur in making risky investment decisions. Herding behavior, overconfidence, disposition effect, and conservatism show a positive effect, while availability does not show a significant effect. Testing on the interaction model finds that financial literacy is able to reduce these psychological biases. This finding also explains the managerial implications that investors with high levels of financial literacy have the potential to experience relatively low psychological biases compared to investors with limited levels of financial literacy. In terms of limitations, this research uses a questionnaire survey that has not been able to reveal aspects of investor behavior in a comprehensive manner. In addition, the number of respondents who are more dominated by beginner investors also adds to the limitations in carrying out the generalization.                                                    ABSTRAKRiset ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis bias-bias psikologi yang terjadi ketika pemodal mengambil keputusan investasi berisiko. Terdapat lima faktor perilaku yang dianalisis, yaitu perilaku herding, overconfidence, disposition effect, conservatism, dan availability. Literasi keuangan digunakan sebagai pemoderasi dalam menganalisis pengaruh faktor-faktor keperilakuan tersebut terhadap keputusan investasi berisiko. Riset ini menguji empat persamaan ekonometrika dalam menjelaskan peran literasi keuangan sebagai pemoderasi. Pengujian efek interaksi dilakukan dengan menggunakan regresi variabel moderasi. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa bias-bias psikologi terjadi dalam pengambilan keputusan investasi berisiko. Perilaku herding, overconfidence, disposition effect, dan conservatism menunjukkan pengaruh positif terhadap pengambilan keputusan investasi berisiko, sementara bias availability tidak menunjukkan pengaruh yang bermakna dalam riset ini. Pengujian pada model interaksi menemukan bahwa literasi keuangan mampu mereduksi bias-bias psikologi tersebut. Temuan ini sekaligus menjelaskan implikasi manajerial bahwa pemodal dengan tingkat literasi keuangan yang baik berpotensi mengalami bias-bias psikologi yang relatif lebih rendah dibandingkan pemodal dengan tingkat lietrasi keuangan yang terbatas. Dari sisi keterbatasan, riset ini menggunakan survei kuesioner yang belum mampu mengungkap aspek perilaku pemodal secara komprehensif. Selain itu, jumlah responden yang lebih didominasi oleh pemodal pemula juga menambah keterbatasan dalam melakukan generalisasi hasil penelitian.


2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 409-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanqing “Chevy” Fang ◽  
Keng L. Siau ◽  
Esra Memili ◽  
Junsheng Dou

Lude and Prügl explored “family business bias,” a cognitive tendency where the family nature of a firm can often reduce investors’ perceived risk in investments. As a result, investors would display lower risk-avoidance in the gain domain and reinforced risk-seeking in the loss domain. We expanded the authors’ work by introducing four cognitive factors (anchoring, representativeness, stereotype heuristic, and information availability) that can explain the underlying mechanisms behind the prevalence of “family business bias” and other cognitive misperceptions surrounding family businesses when it comes to investment decisions.


2016 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 218-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Fochmann ◽  
Kristina Hemmerich ◽  
Dirk Kiesewetter

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Guillemette ◽  
Jesse B. Jurgenson

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether a professional designation affects consumer choice behavior within the area of investment decision making. Forty-six participants were endowed with real money and received hypothetical investment advice from a certified financial planner (CFP) Professional and a stockbroker. Among low-income households, advice from a CFP altered investor choice behavior within hypothetical education and retirement savings accounts. When participants made investment decisions using education funds and received advice from a CFP, the mean expected value of their investment choices was $43,913, compared to $25,870 given advice from a stockbroker. When investment decisions were made using retirement funds, the average expected value given advice from a CFP and a stockbroker was $53,424 and $33,207, respectively. If an investor was risk-neutral or risk-seeking, investment choices were improved when advice was rendered by a CFP relative to a stockbroker.


Games ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Ortner

Schosser (Games 2018, 9, 26) claims to have found an alternative solution to design appropriate performance measures than the State-Contingent Relative Benefit Cost Allocation (RBCA) introduced by Ortner et al. (Management Accounting Research 2017, 36, 43–50), which he states is simpler and more powerful. However, this note reveals that the performance measures proposed by Schosser are, in fact, a specific subset of State-Contingent Robust RBCA performance measures and thus do not represent a new solution.


Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Xiaokang Cheng ◽  
Narisa Zhao

In the financial market, information and investment behaviors disseminate in investor social networks, and different contagion patterns may cause diverse investment trends. Prior studies have investigated the impact of investor social networks, but few have considered community structure. In this paper, we study the impact of the community structure of investor social networks on the diffusion of internet investment products. A two-stage diffusion model is proposed, and the clustering coefficient and modularity of an investor social network are considered. The results show that both modularity and the clustering coefficient have an impact on the diffusion velocity and scale and that the impact is most evident at the stage of explosive growth. The negative influence of a large modularity can be hardly mitigated by adjusting other factors. Furthermore, a decrease in modularity and an increase in the clustering coefficient can better facilitate diffusion when the temporary investment rate is high and can partly offset the negative impact of information discarding and divestment.


2017 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 106-112
Author(s):  
Anna M. Rose ◽  
Jacob M. Rose ◽  
Ikseon Suh ◽  
Joseph C. Ugrin

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