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Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby

Dr. Daniel Crosby

The Standard Deviations podcast is a weekly production that looks at money, mind and meaning, all through a psychological lens. Each week, psychologist and New York Times bestselling author Dr. Daniel Crosby interviews a fascinating new guest, experts in everything from finance to literature to wellness. Each guest provides listeners with three concrete ways to apply what was learned that week, ensuring that weekly listening becomes part of a path to a richer life. Episodes are brief,

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00:53:57

Melina Palmer - Harnessing Surprise and Delight

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2022/08/11

Tune in to hear:- What are some of the psychological mechanisms that make our vision of ourselves so cloudy at times?- If Melina hoped to draw out a deeply personal answer to the question “what are your financial goals,” how would she go about constructing the question?- What are the hallmarks of a psychologically sophisticated brand and what is the psychological impact of this authenticity?- What is the “surprise and delight” approach and why isn’t it more ubiquitous in customer service and UI

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00:30:19

Dr. Ashvin Chhabra - Mental Accounting for Improved...

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2022/08/04

Tune in to hear:- What does Ashvin propose as a better measure of investor success above risk adjusted returns?- What are the two main reasons why we invest? Ashvin thinks that, with a traditional portfolio, we will be disappointed with at least one of these two dimensions at any given moment - why is this the case?- What is the three-tiered investment approach that Ashvin came up with and how does it help ameliorate some of the disappointment implicit in investing?- How does this bucketing approach

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00:32:38

Samantha Lamas - The Complicated Art of Making Things...

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2022/07/28

Tune in to hear:- Why is it often complicated to offer a simple and elegant solution for the common behavioral dilemmas that advisors face?- Why might psychological shortcuts potentially lead to gender bias in asset allocation?- Are there any salient differences between men and women, on average, in regards to risk tolerance?- How can we systematize the information gathering process during client intake in order to give more equitable advice?- Why is there often a discrepancy between where clients

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00:49:17

Dr. Sarah Asebedo - Resolving Financial Conflict

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2022/07/21

Tune in to hear:- What role does positive psychology play in financial planning? More broadly, what is positive psychology and how is it differentiated from the popular conception of behavioral finance as the study of bias?- What is the “three good things” intervention and why does it work? Is it applicable in a financial context as well?- What do you do when someone attributes the best things in life to happenstance or luck? How can you potentially reorient this into something with a more internal

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00:47:45

Dr. Kristy Archuleta - Lessons from Financial Therapy

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2022/07/14

Tune in to hear: - As one of the founders of the discipline of financial therapy, what light can Dr. Archuleta shed on the origin story of this unique discipline?- What are the lines of demarcation between financial planning, financial therapy and traditional therapy? Should financial planners look to make referrals, when necessary, for financial therapists or is this a largely academic discipline?- What’s a concrete example of a concern that is out of the scope of a traditional financial advisor’s

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00:40:00

Nick Maggiulli - Personal Finance Myth Busting

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2022/07/07

Tune in to hear:- How did Nick land on a kinder, more gentle approach, to personal finance?- What is the least conventional bit of financial advice that a reader may come across in Nick’s new book?- Nick’s new book states that most savings advice is problematic - where does he differ from the conventional wisdom with respect to savings advice?- How should we think about lifestyle creep from a data driven perspective?- How should people think about investing at a time when inflation is rising this

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00:49:21

Tim Houlihan - Change Behavior with this Simple...

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2022/06/30

Tune in to hear:- If Tim could personify himself as a guitar, what type of guitar would he be?- Tim thinks that engagement, performance and persuasion all begin with behavioral science and that behavioral science begins with the unconscious. What does this mean from a scientific perspective and how can we tap into these unconscious motivations?- The unconscious is pretty intensely guarded, and sometimes for good reason - how can we push through this and access information below the deck that is

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00:39:07

Steve Atkinson - The Admired Advisor

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2022/06/23

Tune in to hear:- When we narrow down the financial advisors to those who we would trust to manage our spouse’s or parent’s finances, Steve thinks that we do so largely on behavioral factors alone. Which behavioral considerations make someone a trusted advisor?- From the outside looking in (i.e. if you don’t personally know an advisor beforehand), how can one make a determination about whether an advisor is going to be one of the handful of advisors that another advisor might entrust with their

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00:49:26

Jeff Levine - How to Reduce Your Tax Burden

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2022/06/16

Tune in to hear:- Jeff is known on Twitter for his complex deep dives into the world of tax legislation - what got him interested in this in the first place?- What is keeping us from a more simplified tax code? Is it really as complicated as it appears or is there some subterfuge here where the complexity is just a feature and not a bug?- When Jeff hears politicians and everyday people talking about tax schemes - which ideas sort of make him cringe and which ideas around taxation does he find to be

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00:47:35

Drew Dickson - Stay in the Game

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2022/06/09

Tune in to hear:- What was Drew’s experience studying under Richard Thaler like?- Drew thinks that you have to hold a willingness to be right and to be wrong in equal measure at all times - is this something that Thaler modeled in his behavior and how does he think about this in the context of his own firm?- What’s an analogy we can draw between Hank Aaron’s batting behavior and the act of picking stocks?- What are a few techniques Drew has discovered to de-bias his thinking a bit?- Drew is great at

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00:42:35

Jez Groom - Behavioral Nudging for Positive Influence

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2022/06/02

Tune in to hear:- Where are we at, as an industry, in terms of the application of behavioral sciences to the world of work? Where does Jez see us headed next or what’s his outlook for the industry?- Compared to something like tech, where does the financial industry fall on the adoption curve of behavioral sciences? - In what field might we have the next big, unexplored vertical jump for applied behavioral sciences?- What was the case study about helping regular folks save more money and what

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00:54:00

Herman Brodie - The Power of Trust

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2022/05/26

Tune in to hear:- What are some of the primary drivers of asset flows from a behavioral perspective?- Soft factors account for a lot more of clients’ decision-making process about their assets - what is the takeaway, for asset managers and financial advisors, from this revelation?- What are the three different types of trust that Herman breaks down in his book?- Interpersonal trust might be the most important pillar of trust, as well as being the most within an advisor’s sphere of control. What can

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00:36:47

Dr. Kurt Nelson - Finding Your Behavioral Groove

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2022/05/19

Tune in to hear:- Has Kurt ever noticed a problem that isn’t ostensibly behavioral in nature that ended up being behavioral?- How can we craft a cohesive work culture without contributing to problems like group think?- From a leadership perspective, how can we open ourselves up to new ideas and not fall prey to confirmation bias? Also, if we are the person that’s going to question the status quo of an organization - how can we do that in a way that it’s likely to get picked up?- What is a when-then

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00:45:53

Peter Lazaroff - Making Money Simple

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2022/05/12

Tune in to hear:- How did Peter get started reviewing frozen pizzas?- What is it that most people misunderstand about investing?- How does Peter, as an advisor, go about crafting a vivid and salient personal vision for his clients?- How can you bring clients back to a vision of their future selves in a difficult moment?- How, practically, does Peter try to maximize anxiety-adjusted returns when creating a portfolio?- What are some behavioral similarities between cake mixes and portfolios?- Why did

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00:47:48

Natalie Taylor - The Client-Centric Future of...

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2022/05/05

Tune in to hear:- How does technology shape the way we act? Sometimes we don’t even know the water that we are swimming in with regards to technology - how can this induce us to make good or poor decisions?- Is there a way that tech can facilitate some of the soft skills of client interaction (e.g. care, empathy and connection)?- What role should self-care, self-work and introspection play in advisors being better behavioral coaches for their clients?- When Natalie had realizations about personal

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00:48:40

Meb Faber - Market Timing, Limited Liquidity and...

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2022/04/28

Tune in to hear:- How has Meb’s world, and domestic, travel shifted the way he thinks about investment?- What is Meb’s least popular idea about investing?- Why is it so important to codify and pre-commit to your own sell strategy?- What is Meb’s “red light, green light” approach? How does he think about market timing and tactical asset allocation?- Meb likes to give out free business ideas that he doesn’t have the bandwidth to take on himself. Has anyone ever run with one of these ideas and what is

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00:36:50

Seth Streeter - Money with a Mission

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2022/04/14

Tune in to hear:- What are some of the flimsy tethers in peoples’ lives that keep them from achieving financial greatness?- If an advisor’s number one job is not to make you money, what might it be?- What are the 11 different dimensions of wealth that Seth’s firm lays out? How did he arrive at these?- How do these provide a helpful framework for clients during times of crisis?- How do you balance giving your children a great amount of access without spoiling them or diminishing their self-reliance?-

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00:48:37

Dr. Rick Bookstaber - The Psychology of Risk

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2022/04/07

Tune in to hear:- How does Dr. Bookstaber think about and define risk in the most practical terms possible?- Does the way people like us talk about risk differ in an overly academic way from how people in the street think about it?- Which of the sort of commonly discussed current risks seem legitimate to Dr. Bookstaber and which might loom larger in peoples’ minds than they should?- Why aren’t geopolitical conflicts more catastrophic to the market than they are with how intertwined the global

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00:56:17

Dr. Brian Portnoy - Behavioral Finance 2.0

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2022/03/31

Tune in to hear:- Dr. Portnoy says we’ve created a “Behavioral Finance entertainment complex that does very little to help real people make real decisions.” What does he mean by this?- Do you think we overlook the good behavioral finance has done because the good is subtle and simple?- What does he see as the good, the bad and the ugly of “nudging?” How can or can’t it be applied to the field of wealth management?- How can we make the distinction between normalizing clients’ maladaptive behaviors

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00:47:58

Dr. Sonya Lutter - Money and Happiness

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2022/03/24

Tune in to hear:- Are various addictive behaviors (e.g. gambling, drug abuse) potentially symptoms of a larger societal issue?- What percentage of people in standard therapy might benefit from a finance-centric therapeutic approach?- What are some of the most common, or universal, expressions of financial dysfunction that Dr. Lutter sees in her work?- Are there some cases where having financially dependent adult children is an appropriate course of action because of cultural or other differences?-

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