The counterintuitive psychology of insurance

Name: The counterintuitive psychology of insurance
Uploaded: 2022-02-23T21:20:45Z
Duration: 16 min 12 s
Description: 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 |

TEDxInnsbruck

• September 2021

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.