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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Behavioral Finance by Duke University

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About the Course

We make thousands of decisions every day. Do I cross the road now, or wait for the oncoming truck to pass? Should I eat fries or a salad for lunch? How much should I tip the cab driver? We usually make these decisions with almost no thought, using what psychologists call “heuristics” – rules of thumb that enable us to navigate our lives. Without these mental shortcuts, we would be paralyzed by the multitude of daily choices. But in certain circumstances, these shortcuts lead to predictable errors – predictable, that is, if we know what to watch out for. Did you know, for example, that we are naturally biased towards selling investments that are doing well for us, but holding on to those that are doing poorly? Or that we often select sub-optimal insurance payment plans, and routinely purchase insurance that we don’t even need? And why do so many of us fail to enroll in our employer’s corporate retirement plans, even when the employer offers to match our contributions? Behavioral finance is the study of these and dozens of other financial decision-making errors that can be avoided, if we are familiar with the biases that cause them. In this course, we examine these predictable errors, and discover where we are most susceptible to them. This course is intended to guide participants towards better financial choices. Learn how to improve your spending, saving, and investing decisions for the future....

Top reviews

JS

Jul 18, 2020

Engaging and challenging course. Taking the course gave me a lot of realizations as to my biases on investing and personal finance that I should strive hard to consciously avoid.

DS

Aug 15, 2023

The course did challenge the way I looked at and perceived certain financial issues or dilemnas. Based on the number of hours to complete the course I personally found that it took me longer.

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By Basem C

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Oct 18, 2016

Very useful especially as an introduction to Behavioral Finance. Week 2 would have been better to be split over two weeks.

By Hugh K

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Jun 4, 2020

This course is an excellent overview of Behavioral Finance, in particular, the investor biases which reside in all of us.

By Ian M

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Sep 23, 2018

The content of the course was very interesting. My one critique would be not providing explanations for the quiz answers.

By Roberton G

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Jun 3, 2018

It only had the answers or the test correction on the first test.

After the course we could receive the answers by e-mail.

By M- B O

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Feb 8, 2021

Great course and a good insight on the topic, but it didn't have many lectures, it was mostly just PDFs that you read.

By Juris S

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Dec 17, 2020

A good course before Standford game theory. Which I could recommend for everyone who is interested in human behaviors.

By MBS04 M M

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May 30, 2020

This course help me to remove many biases in decision make. I hope that in future I used this information in best way.

By Anita R

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May 19, 2020

I really loved it. I liked the examples given especially and the course material. Its really worth to do this course.

By Ertuğrul Y

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Nov 15, 2020

It was very theoretical, and some videos had no Turkish translations. visuality could be added even more. thank you.

By Ken Z

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May 22, 2020

I enjoyed learning from the leaders in behavioral finance. Well worth the time and structure to complete the course.

By Ahmet M U

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Mar 11, 2022

it was very beneficial. I understand mostly financial behaviors, our biases, and some trouble situations. Thank you

By Saurabh R

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Aug 21, 2018

The quizzes could be more numerical and have more relevant questions. Convert some of the readings into animations

By Nandini G

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Aug 2, 2021

i got to learn alot from this course and would recommend people to take this course especially finance students.

By Le R U

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Feb 7, 2023

Good informative course offered for free. I would recommend taking this course to anyone interested in finance.

By Noah P

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Jul 9, 2021

Great course, in particular i find the material useful, the exams are written in a frustrating manner though.

By Vanshika K

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Nov 19, 2019

Good Course too much to learn, but should have included a little more video lectures along with the readings.

By Edwina D

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Aug 29, 2016

3 weeks was a bit of a rush to get everything done, but the course was very informative and met expectations.

By Sagar P

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May 1, 2020

Too good. Lot of technical aspects were tried to explain. Still i feel explanation would have been provided.

By Sefa G

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Apr 27, 2022

A lot of written materials make it hard to understand some topics, I would prefer listening them on video.

By Arnav S S

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Jan 26, 2025

Could learn the market fluctuation reasons and results of individual behavior on the aggregate economy

By Kersam Z l

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Feb 5, 2022

Will be great to have correct answers and explanations of quiz-2 and quiz-3, just like that of quiz-1

By Sneha M

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Jun 1, 2020

good course gave a insight about how to manage finance and how to take decision during important times

By Gavin S

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Apr 12, 2020

A well presented and thought out course. Easily understandable slides and the videos are very helpful.

By Melis Y

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Nov 6, 2020

Videos are useful but the course is full of slides. I would prefer listeing from a professional much.

By Jonathan D M

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Aug 23, 2020

Short and fun course on Behavioral finance. However, there is much more reading material than videos.