The cognitive and emotional processes involved in making choices about money, influenced by biases, heuristics, emotions, and individual differences in risk tolerance and financial knowledge.
Example: People's tendency to be loss-averse, making different choices when options are framed as gains versus losses, even when the objective outcomes are identical.
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