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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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00:08:18

You Need New Friends

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2018/06/01

In this episode, we take on the age old questions: "Do birds of a feather flock together?" or "Do opposites attract?" We also make the bold statement that your friends are lame and are keeping you from being as smart and well-rounded as you ought to be.

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00:15:30

Is Investing Luck Or Skill Based?

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2018/05/26

Is investing a game of luck or skill? In this episode, we examine the three criteria needed to distinguish a game of luck from skill and find that financial markets land somewhere in the middle. We then discuss the implications of this finding for selecting appropriate investment vehicles.

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00:10:47

You Worry About The Wrong Things

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2018/05/18

It's human nature to worry about low probability/high salience things and ignore threats that are far more immediate and pervasive. Tune in to learn why and what to do about it.

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00:14:57

Behavioral Feedback Loops In Financial Markets

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2018/05/15

Feedback loops exist in relationships, nature and especially in financial markets. In today's episode, we examine how capital markets operate in boom and bust cycles due to our subjective perceptions.

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00:12:00

The Two Conditions For Trusting Your Gut

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2018/05/14

Can you trust your gut? Well...sometimes. Today on the podcast we look at the two conditions that must be met in order for intuition to be useful. Even the best-informed intuition is only as good as the milieu in which it finds itself and environmental cues remain the best predictor of whether or not intuition can be trusted. In the absence of a certain level of predictability and rapid feedback, neither of which are present in financial markets, intuition lacks soil fertile enough to take root. We

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00:17:24

Why Positivity Beats Negativity In Bringing About...

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2018/05/07

Listen in this week to learn: Why positivity brings about more lasting change than negativity How making lists of "not to do" can have a paradoxical effect Why labeling ourselves and others can blind us to the true state of things

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00:20:43

More Info, More Problems

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2018/04/29

It is often assumed that there is a positive, linear relationship between information and market efficiency. It stands to reason, at least to a point, that the more publicly available information we have about a security, the greater our ability to accurately price that security. But is it possible that too much information can be as bad for efficiency as too little? As reported in Scientific American, the amount of data that we produce doubles each year. To put it more concretely, in 2016,

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00:16:19

You Will Never Have Enough Money

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2018/04/23

We’re all familiar with the term “keeping up with the Joneses” but it’s doubtful that we understand just how deeply ingrained this is in our concept of wealth and success. Each year, a Gallup poll asks Americans to determine “What is the smallest amount of money a family of four needs to get along in this community?” Gallup finds that the answers to this question moves up in line with average incomes of the respondents. A recent Princeton study set out to answer the age-old question, “Can money buy

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00:13:25

The Psychology Of Investment Momentum

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2018/04/16

Momentum has existed for hundreds of years and has persisted for two decades post discovery. This sort of staying power in capital markets full of hungry arbitrageurs is always the mark of human psychology. Many experts consider momentum to not just be a factor but THE factor. Fama and French don’t mince words, “The premier market anomaly is momentum. Stocks with low returns over the past year tend to have low returns for the next few months, and stocks with high past returns tend to have high

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00:15:50

The Shape Of Financial Bubbles

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2018/04/09

In this episode we look answer: How do financial bubbles form? How likely is a bubble to burst? How can I know a bubble when I see one?

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00:12:17

The Most Powerful, Least Uttered Phrase

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2018/04/03

What seldom-uttered phrase can make you wealthier and more likeable? Why did a bank robber use lemonade to commit crimes? Why don't dumb people know how dumb they are?

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00:12:40

Your Money And Your Brain

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2018/03/26

Your brain is a miracle unrivaled by even the most sophisticated technology, but it is a miracle equipped for a different time and place. After millennia of fighting famine, war and pestilence, we now live in a society of greater and greater ease that is increasingly left to fight psychological battles. Obesity will kill more people this year than hunger. Suicide claims more lives annually than war, terrorism and violent crime combined. Your brain is still fighting a war won eons ago and you must

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00:09:44

The Joys And Pains Of Comparing Yourself To Others

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2018/03/19

Let me ask you a question, “Do you like laugh tracks?” Didn’t think so. If laugh tracks are so universally disliked, why do Hollywood executives continue to include them? These executives understand something that we may not; however irksome canned laughter may be, it provides valuable social cues to viewers. Research has repeatedly shown that laugh tracks cause viewers to laugh longer and harder and to rate the viewing experience as more enjoyable. In fact, laugh tracks have been shown to be most

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00:13:28

Why Is Change So Hard?

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2018/03/12

How many decisions would you guess that you make in a given day? Take a second, mentally walk through your day and hazard a guess. Most people I ask this question land somewhere around 100, which is way off – try 35,000. That’s right, you make 35,000 decisions per day. Canonical models of decision-making deal with two types of decisions – certain (i.e., with a known set of alternatives with certain outcomes) and uncertain (just the opposite). In theory, decisions made under conditions of certainty

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00:13:26

Humankind's Greatest GIft Is Also Its Greatest Liability

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2018/03/06

If bees organize by innate mandate and chimps through tight-knit social interactions, the miracle of human ascendance in the animal kingdom owes to a penchant for behaving in accordance with social narratives. To put it bluntly, we act as if the stories we make up are real. As Harari writes in the magisterial Sapiens, “As far as we know, only Sapiens can talk about entire kinds of entities that they have never seen, touched or smelled.” A monkey can say, “There is a caribou by the river” but could

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00:13:17

Why That Thing You Want Won't Be Satisfying Once You...

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2018/02/28

We’re all familiar with the term “keeping up with the Joneses” but it’s doubtful that we understand just how deeply ingrained this is in our concept of success and how the neurological processes we’ve touched on here contribute. Each year, a Gallup poll asks Americans to determine “What is the smallest amount of money a family of four needs to get along in this community?” Gallup finds that the answers to this question moves up in line with average incomes of the respondents. “Enough”, it seems, is

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00:09:20

How To Avoid Financial Scams

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2018/02/20

How to Avoid Financial Scams Stephen Greenspan is a psychologist and author of the Annals of Gullibility: Why We Get Duped and How to Avoid It. Greenspan’s book outlines notable instances of gullibility including the Trojan Horse, the failure to locate weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the bad science surrounding cold fusion. Most of the book focuses on anecdotes, but the final chapter sets forth the anatomy of being fooled and attributes it to some combination of the following

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00:05:13

Market Corrections Are As Regular As Your Birthday

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2018/02/17

There are three things that intelligent investors must understand if they are to truly inoculate themselves against the fear peddled by the profiteers of peril: corrections and bear markets are a common part of any investment lifetime, they represent a long-term buying opportunity and a systematic process is required to take advantage of them. A “correction” is defined as a 10% drop in stock prices, whereas a “bear market” is defined as a 20% drop. Both definitions are entirely arbitrary, but

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00:11:31

Crowd Wisdom And The Anatomy Of A Good Decision

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2017/10/13

We rely on the crowd to do everything from run our governments to help us select a place to eat, but does the wisdom of the crowd apply to the stock market? By examining the anatomy of a good decision set forth by Richard Thaler we arrive at the conclusion that crowds are wise in some respects but can lead us astray in others.

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00:13:36

The Three Tests Of An Investable Idea

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby ·

2017/08/28

It has been said that "this time is different" is the most expensive phrase in investing but what can be said to be the most profitable words in investing? In this episode, we look at the three tests of an investable idea, providing a tri-part test for discovering enduring alpha.

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