Dr. Richard Peterson, CEO of MarketPsych Data; a firm producing media sentiment data in partnership with Refinitiv.Called "Wall Street's Top Psychiatrist" (Associated Press).
Dr. Peterson's financial psychology research has been published in leading academic journals, textbooks, and profiled in the financial media including NPR, CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and the BBC. His book, "Inside the Investor's Brain" (Wiley, 2007), was praised as "outstanding" and a "seminal text" by Barrons. With Frank Murtha PhD he co-authored "MarketPsych" (Wiley, 2010). Both books were named top financial books of their respective years by Kiplinger's. His latest book is "Trading on Sentiment". Dr. Peterson earned cum laude degrees in electrical engineering, arts, and medicine (MD) from the University of Texas, performed post-graduate neuroeconomics research at Stanford University, and is Board-certified in psychiatry.