Emotional State and Market Behavior

Bubbling with excitement: en experiment

Adriana Breaban and Charles Noussair

Review of Finance, 2018, vol. 22, issue 1, 279-309

Abstract: We consider the relationship between trader emotions and asset market behavior. We create experimental asset markets with the structure first studied by Smith, Suchanek, and Williams (1988), which is known to generate price bubbles and crashes. To track traders’ emotions in real time, we analyze participants’ facial expressions with facereading software before and while the market is operating. We find that a positive emotional state correlates with purchases and overpricing. Fear correlates with selling, low prices, and price decreases. The experiment confirms the intuition that emotions and market dynamics are closely related.

Keywords: Emotions; Bubbles; Experiment; Facereader (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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