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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.

LC

Oct 28, 2022

T​his was a great course and I love digging deeper into the behaviors that drive finance. I did feel though, that there was somewhat of a disconnect from the material to the quizes.

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By Lori C

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Apr 30, 2018

Basic introduction to Behavioral Finance - mostly application of terms on exams that did not tie to lect

By Fernando R

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Aug 21, 2017

A more in depth course would be great. this barely scratches the surface. but as an intro it works well.

By K S

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Nov 7, 2020

Valuable information but the quizzes lack clarity and explanation. Would suggest auditing if anything.

By PARIDHI M

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Jul 11, 2020

The course content is extremely good but the answers and explanations to the quizzes must be provided.

By Edd U

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Nov 27, 2018

You should divide week two in 2 or 3 weeks. The concepts are interesting but nor very well explained.

By Amin M

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Apr 15, 2024

I found this course very challenging. If you work at it you can get the grades required to pass it.

By R R

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May 4, 2020

Certain concepts were not clear. Had difficulty in understanding the terms with appropriate examples

By Daisuke K

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Aug 1, 2022

Great slides. If their video lectures are as amazing as their slides, I will give them five stars.

By Parv C

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Sep 21, 2017

Not very easy to understand specially for someone without much background on finance and economics.

By Sarah H

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Jun 1, 2018

Good information provided. A little bit hard to keep up pay attention to the video lectures.

By Iurii O

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Jun 23, 2020

Interesting topics, but the quality of the course, materials and tests is just disgusting.

By Vasiliki P M

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Dec 28, 2020

Very interesting information but this course needs more videos for better understanding.

By Christian E L R

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Aug 13, 2020

Its a little confusing, and the videos do no have all the material needed for the exams

By Bhaskar G

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Apr 29, 2023

Would have been better if they provide video-based lessons rather than material based

By Deleted A

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May 16, 2018

Felt like most quiz questions were related to concepts not covered in the materials.

By Omar B

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Aug 28, 2017

The lectures need to be improved and increased instead of putting more readings

By Eddie C

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Nov 1, 2017

There could be more explanations of behavioural biases in each example given.

By Punahele A

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Nov 21, 2021

Course content was good but the tests didn't reflect course content.

By sanket d

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Dec 26, 2021

Not so good so much of reading, taken this course for not to read.

By ROHIT M

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Jun 4, 2020

More videos, inclusive of illustrations, can improve it a lot

By Siddharth

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Sep 8, 2018

Very light on content, but a useful intro course all the same

By JOSE E L E

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Dec 17, 2022

A BIT CONFUSING, a better explanation is needed !!!!!!!!!!

By Alejandro P

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Nov 8, 2018

Promising, but too short. Also more readings than videos.

By Ramon

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Nov 14, 2017

Topics on the exam were not covered in the material.