Why do people suffer from loss aversion? As anyone who has bought stocks during a bull market will know, making a quick profit is great, but making a loss is difficult to stomach! Behavioural scientists call this loss aversion. People are intrinsically afraid of losses. When compared against each other people hate losing more than they enjoy winning. Thus losses
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By - Neal Cole