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The counterintuitive psychology of insurance

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The real reason you buy insurance may have as much to do with pleasing your psyche as it does protecting your wallet. Behavioral psychologist Orit Tykocinski explores the connection between insurance and the reality-distorting risks of "magical thinking" that may make you reconsider your own rationale.

The real reason you buy insurance may have as much to do with pleasing your psyche as it does protecting your wallet. Behavioral psychologist Orit Tykocinski explores the connection between insurance and the reality-distorting risks of "magical thinking" that may make you reconsider your own rationale.

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Orit Tykocinski

Orit Tykocinski

Behavioral decision-making expert

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Orit Tykocinski is interested in how people make economic decisions, and how these are shaped by intuitive thinking, past experiences, emotions and wishes.

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