Suboptimal investment decisions have, for example, been linked to overconfidence in knowledge judgments, the tendency to over-explain chance events, and the tendency to substitute affective valence for thought. Errors in medical and legal decision-making have also been linked to specific irrational thinking tendencies that psychologists have studied.
这种测试也许将被证明大有裨益。例如，次优投资决定是和下列因素联系在一起的：在知识判断方面的过度自信，倾向于过度诠释机会事件，容易于用情感因素代替思考。医学和法律决策方面的错误同样与具体的非理性思维倾向相关，心理学家已经就此展开了研究。