How Generation Hexed Can Overcome Its Fear of Investing

Be an Anglophile and adopt this British investing approach to ease young investors into stocks.

Why Your Credit-Card Debt Won't Die

We tend to pay off the card with the smallest balance first, regardless of the interest rate.

A Guide to Understanding How Your Brain Works

This book on how our minds’ intuitive and logical parts work together can help us recognize investing mistakes.

Angst Over Annuities

Giving up a lump sum in favor of a series of payments may wreak havoc with our mental accounts.

Tightwads and Spendthrifts

Both of these extreme spending personalities suffer pain and guilt when faced with opening up their wallets. Here's how you can strike a better balance.

Can Money Make You Happy?

The relationship between happiness and income can be summed up in a simple equation, but really, it's complicated.

Just Say No to Extras to Save Money

You'll beat tricky merchants and let bad shoppers pay for your bargain.

Improve Your Investing Decisions By Ignoring Short-Term Predictions

Believing in the illusion of control, or the ability to forecast the future, can cause overconfidence in investors and harm to your portfolio.

How to Be a Better Investor

Step one: Recognize -- and overcome -- the psychological hurdles that influence our behavior.

Sex Drives Spending

Don't let tricky marketing ploys influence your financial decisions and get you to spend more.

How Media Excess Can Mess With Your Wealth

Don't let an inundation of news scare you away from your long-term investing strategy.

When You Build a Portfolio, Less Is More

We tend to make the best investing choices when we're given fewer options.

Are You a Gambler or an Investor?

If you treat your portfolio as a gambling stake instead of a nest egg, the consequences can be dramatic. See where you fall on the investor-gambler spectrum.

How Aging Imperils Your Finances

As we grow older, our ability to make sound financial decisions degrades, but if we prepare, we can maintain healthy finances well into old age.

Why We Fall for Scams

How Ignoring Mr. Market's Mood Swings Can Increase Your Wealth

Don't take on more risk just because the market's rising.

How to Cope with Your Confirmation Bias

We naturally tend to seek out others with similar opinions, but this phenomenon can be harmful to our portfolios.

The Feminine Edge

During the depths of the market crash, women were less likely than men to cut and run from stocks.

How to Beat Our Status-Quo Bias

We can improve our ability to make investing decisions by procrastinating a bit, focusing on fewer options and settling for good enough.

Mental Accounting: How Math Mind Games Bust Our Budgets

Learn how to benefit from the psychological phenomenon that makes us think of our money as divided into separate accounts.

The Cramer Effect

How to Beat Our Investing Biases

Admitting to our prejudices as investors is the first step to overcoming them.

How Biases Affect Your Portfolio

Minimize your money-related mistakes by learning about the investing biases rooted in your experiences, background, culture, and gender.

Investors, Beware the Pitfalls of Too Much Information

You may think you're taking in a stream of financial facts, but there's no way you can absorb everything at once.

Too Close to Home

Buying investments we know best hurts diversification.

Break Out of the Mold

A psychological quirk called framing can cause us to make poor decisions -- but you can break the mold.

Patience Pays Off

How Texas Hold 'Em Simulates Investing

Both are based on incomplete and unfolding information.

How Poker Can Make You a Better Investor

Learn to avoid emotional traps by playing a little Texas hold ’em.

Book Review: How Markets Fail

John Cassidy takes readers on a tour of economic theory over the past 250 years, examining the irrational behavior of economists themselves.