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Can Psychological Learning Disorder Studies Impact Economic Decision-Making?
Hi traders and analysts,
I’ve recently been diving into some academic readings in behavioral psychology, specifically a Persian-language PDF titled "اختلالات یادگیری" (Learning Disorders) by عزت الله نادری. While it’s mostly aimed at educators and clinical professionals, I found the insights surprisingly relevant for understanding cognitive biases, decision fatigue, and risk processing — topics that definitely intersect with trading behavior.
For example, how certain learning patterns or neurological tendencies may influence how individuals handle uncertainty, respond to loss, or process information under pressure.
Has anyone here ever explored the psychology of learning or cognitive disorders as a lens for understanding trading behavior or economic decision-making?Would love to hear your views or any related materials you've found valuable.
Thanks in advance for sharing!
Here, we need to mention Transcendentalism. The core idea of Transcendentalism is that humans can transcend sensation and reason to directly perceive truth, emphasizing the importance of intuition. It holds that everything in the human world is a miniature of the universe - the world shrinks itself into a drop of dew (as Emerson put it), and this view gradually faded away with the emergence of practical philosophy.
In fact, all of our transactional experiences are not completely objective and rational truths. Each of us is within a cognitive cocoon. We naturally cluster around those who have similar habits to ours, and with our own cultural perspectives, we examine dogmatism and question the so-called authority.
The essence of trading is to buy when prices rise and sell when they fall. However, due to the different habits of each individual, the trading styles they adopt will also vary. Therefore, when we talk about any so-called psychological factors that may influence things, it is actually based on a cultural identity formed in one's own upbringing environment. We often make judgments based on our own cultural identity, and these judgments are transcendent and difficult to replicate. So, in transactions, we use quantitative methods and approaches, which are rational and can be replicated by others, but the successful decisions made are often impossible for others to replicate.
