Good thinking or gut feeling? Cognitive reflection and intuition in traders, bankers and financial non-experts.

The current study investigated differences in decision-making style and risk-taking between financial traders, non-trading bank employees, and people not working in finance. Traders scored significantly higher than participants in the other two groups on the cognitive reflection test (CRT) which mea...

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Main Authors: Volker Thoma, Elliott White, Asha Panigrahi, Vanessa Strowger, Irina Anderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4395391?pdf=render