Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

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When moments of anxiety hit—in all the hardly ideal, often unexpected ways they often do—it's helpful to have a mental checklist of at least a few coping mechanisms to help get through it, like deep ...

This is the second post in a series on cognitive biases. A cognitive bias is a mental shortcut or heuristic intended to spare us time, effort, or discomfort—often while reinforcing our self-image or ...

I was just at a four-way stop intersection. It was my turn to proceed, and the car to my right was a Toyota. A couple of weeks ago, I would have paid that no mind, but today I found myself thinking, ...