Richard L. Peterson Explained

Richard L. Peterson is an American behavioral economist and psychiatrist.He has developed behavioral finance-based quantitative models, imaged the brains of subjects play-trading,^{[1] [2]} and is a frequent writer about social media sentiment.^[3] Peterson developed text mining software to identify and quantify economically predictive sentiments,^{[4] [5]} and speaks widely in the areas of behavioral finance^[6] and social media analytics.^[7]

Life

Peterson graduated from the University of Texas, with a BS cum laude in Electrical Engineering, a BA, and Doctor of Medicine degrees (M.D.). He performed postdoctoral neuroeconomics research at Stanford University, and is Board-certified in Psychiatry.

He founded and runs the sentiment analysis firm MarketPsych Data and ran the psychology-based quantitative asset management firm MarketPsy Capital. In the educational field he developed financial personality tests, published in academic journals and textbooks, and is an associate editor of the Journal of Behavioral Finance. In 2007, Peterson wrote the book Inside the Investor's Brain (Wiley), which translated behavioral finance concepts from academia to a lay audience. The book aggregated and reviewed research indicating that innate neurological influences predictably bias individual investor behavior.^[8] In 2016 he published Trading on Sentiment (Wiley), which explained quantitative research on media themes and sentiments that appear to drive asset prices in predictable patterns.^[9]

He lives in California with his family.

Media

Peterson has appeared in CBS Evening News, CNBC, NPR, BBC, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Harvard Business Review, and he was called "Wall Street's Top Psychiatrist" by the Associated Press.^[10]

Academic journal articles

• Peterson R. (2007). "Affect and Financial Decision Making: How neuroscience can inform market participants." Journal of Behavioral Finance, v8, n2.
• Peterson R. (2005). "Investing Lessons from Neuroscience: fMRI of the reward system." Brain Research Bulletin. v67, n5, 391-397.
• Knutson B, Taylor J, Kaufman M, Peterson R, Glover G. (2005). "Distributed Neural Representation of Expected Value." Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 4806-4812.
• Knutson B & Peterson, R. (2005). "Neurally reconstructing expected utility." Games and Economic Behavior. 52, 305-315.
• Peterson, R. (2002). "'Buy on the Rumor:' Anticipatory affect and investor behavior." Journal of Psychology and Financial Markets, v3, n4.^[11]

Textbook chapters

• Teodoro, T. Q., Clark-Bell, J., & Peterson, R. L. (2023). "ESG Controversies and Stock Returns." In Handbook of Alternative Data in Finance, Volume I (pp. 350-366). Chapman and Hall/CRC.
• Teodoro, T. Q., Clark-Bell, J., & Peterson, R. L. (2023). "Defining Market States with Media Sentiment." In Handbook of Alternative Data in Finance, Volume I (pp. 267-278). Chapman and Hall/CRC.
• Luciani, A., Liu, C., & Peterson, R. (2022). Media Sentiment Momentum. In Handbook of Alternative Data in Finance, Volume I (pp. 247-266). Chapman and Hall/CRC.
• Peterson, R. (2016). "The Psychology of Markets: Information processing and the impact on asset prices." Handbook of Sentiment Analysis in Finance. pp 263-285. Eds. Gautam Mitra and Xiang Yu. Albury Books.
• Liu, C., & Peterson, R. (2016). "Currency Sentiment Analysis." Handbook of Sentiment Analysis in Finance. pp 422-431. Eds. Gautam Mitra and Xiang Yu. Albury Books.
• Fafula, A., & Peterson, R. (2016). "Predicting Global Economic Activity with Media Analytics." Handbook of Sentiment Analysis in Finance. pp 366-381. Eds. Gautam Mitra and Xiang Yu. Albury Books.
• Peterson R. (2014). "Neurofinance." Chapter 23 of Behavioral Finance. Eds. Baker and Ricciardi. John Wiley & Sons: New York.
• Peterson R. (2010). "Neuroeconomics and Neurofinance." Chapter 5 of Behavioral Finance: Investors, Corporations, and Markets.^[12] Eds. Baker and Nofsinger. John Wiley & Sons: New York.
• Peterson, R. (2006). "Buy on the Rumor" and "Sell on the news." In M. K. Ong (Ed.), Risk management (pp. 677-698). Academic Press.

Books

• Trading on Sentiment: The Power of Minds over Markets. Wiley, John & Sons: New York, March 2016,
• MarketPsych: How to Manage Fear and Build Your Investor Identity, Wiley, John & Sons, September 2010,
• Inside the Investor's Brain: The Power of Mind over Money, Wiley, John & Sons, July 2007,

External links

• "Richard L. Peterson: Psychology and finance all in one", "Swissquote"
• "MarketPsych Analytics from LSEG", "London Stock Exchange Group"
• "Pro stock traders looking to Twitter, Facebook for tips", "Los Angeles Times"

Notes and References

1. Web site: Neurally reconstructing expected utility . 2005 . Knutson . B. . Peterson . R. . Stanford University . Games and Economic Behavior . 2024-02-12.
2. Distributed Neural Representation of Expected Value . 2005 . Knutson . B. . Taylor . J. . Kaufman . M. . Peterson . R. . Glover . G. . Journal of Neuroscience . 25 . 19 . 4806–4812 . 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0642-05.2005 . 15888656 . 6724773.
3. Web site: Richard L. Peterson: Psychology and finance all in one . Chappex . Ludovic . 2023-10-31 . Swissquote . 2024-02-12.
4. Web site: MarketPsych Analytics . LSEG.com . London Stock Exchange Group . 2024-02-12 .
5. Web site: Money Minded: How to Psychoanalyze the Stock Market . 2008-02-20 . Popular Science.
6. Web site: The Psychology of Trading . Hedge Fund Huddle Podcast . 2023-05-03 . 2024-02-13.
7. Web site: The Rise and Fall of the First Social Media Sentiment-Based Hedge Fund (Richard Peterson) . 2011-11-09 . 2024-02-12.
8. Book: Peterson, Richard L. . 2007 . Inside the Investor's Brain: The Power of Mind Over Money . Wiley . 978-0-470-06737-6.
9. Book: Peterson, Richard L. . 2016 . Trading on Sentiment: The Power of Minds Over Markets . Wiley . 978-1119122760.
10. Web site: A Q&A with Wall Street's top psychiatrist on market turmoil . Craft . Matthew . 2015-08-28 . Associated Press . 2024-02-13.
11. Web site: "Buy on the Rumor" Behavioral Finance Presentations and Consulting .
12. Web site: Behavioral Finance: Investors, Corporations, and Markets | Wiley .