| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2012 |
| Authors | Fenton-O'Creevy M, Conole G, Lins J, Peffer G, Adam M, Lindley C, Smidt A, Clough G, Scanlon E |
| Conference Name | OECD-SEBI International Conference on Investor Education |
| Conference Location | Goa, India |
| Keywords | serious games; emotion regulation; financial decision-making; pedagogy; technology enhanced learning; investor education |
| URL | http://oro.open.ac.uk/32566/ |
We describe an approach to reducing systematic bias in financial decision-making. We explicitly reject an approach based on the transmission of propositional knowledge. Rather we develop a learning design which is founded in recent research on the role of emotions and their regulation in financial decision-making. We describe a pedagogic approach which supports the development of emotion-regulation skills in a serious game environment and supports their translation into ‘real-world’ trading