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Behavioral Biases on Investment Decision: A Case Study in Indonesia  

KARTINI, Kartini (Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Universitas Islam Indonesia)
NAHDA, Katiya (Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Universitas Islam Indonesia)
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The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business / v.8, no.3, 2021 , pp. 1231-1240 More about this Journal
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A shift in perspective from standard finance to behavioral finance has taken place in the past two decades that explains how cognition and emotions are associated with financial decision making. This study aims to investigate the influence of various psychological factors on investment decision-making. The psychological factors that are investigated are differentiated into two aspects, cognitive and emotional aspects. From the cognitive aspect, we examine the influence of anchoring, representativeness, loss aversion, overconfidence, and optimism biases on investor decisions. Meanwhile, from the emotional aspect, the influence of herding behavior on investment decisions is analyzed. A quantitative approach is used based on a survey method and a snowball sampling that result in 165 questionnaires from individual investors in Yogyakarta. Further, we use the One-Sample t-test in testing all hypotheses. The research findings show that all of the variables, anchoring bias, representativeness bias, loss aversion bias, overconfidence bias, optimism bias, and herding behavior have a significant effect on investment decisions. This result emphasizes the influence of behavioral factors on investor's decisions. It contributes to the existing literature in understanding the dynamics of investor's behaviors and enhance the ability of investors in making more informed decision by reducing all potential biases.
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Behavioral Finance; Investment Decisions; Emotional Bias; Cognitive Bias;
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