This research verifies the existence of the aversion to uncertainty bias in individual financial decisions. It also evaluates the effects of gender and knowledge in this bias. We considered a sample of 80 undergraduate management students from Universidade Católica de Brasília. The results...

The objective of this article is to investigate the presence of affect and anchoring biases in the financial decision making of individual investors. Another parallel objective is to verify whether the gender factor (male and female) or financial knowledge interfere with the presence of these...