Richard Peterson MarketPsych CEO
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Richard Peterson is CEO of MarketPsych which produces sentiment and thematic analytics on financial text including real-time news, social media, and transcripts. MarketPsych’s data and NLP-as-a-Service is utilized by hedge funds, banks, media, and governments in 25+ countries and is used in over 100 academic papers. Dr. Peterson is the author of “Inside the Investor’s Brain” (Wiley, 2007) and “Trading on Sentiment” (Wiley, 2016). He is a trained psychiatrist, an award-winning financial writer, and serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Behavioral Finance. He lives in California with his family.
Published research from Dr Peterson:
Chapter 21: Neurofinance
Investor Behavior: The Psychology of Financial Planning and Investing. H. Kent Baker and Victor Ricciardi, editors, 381-401, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014
Posted: 31 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 10 May 2014
Richard L. Peterson
Market Psychology Consulting
Distributed Neural Representation of Expected Value
Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 25, pp. 4806-4812, May 11, 2005
Posted: 21 May 2005
Brian Knutson, Jonathan E. Taylor, Matthew Kaufman, Richard L. Peterson and Gary H. Glover
Stanford University – Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford University, Market Psychology Consulting and Stanford University
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