The Effect of Investors' Emotional Behavior with the Moderating Role of Public Confidence in Stock Prices

Nowadays, psychological factors of investors with cognitive aspects can influence investment decisions. Behavioral financial perspective shows that some changes in securities prices have no fundamental reason and the emotional behavior of investors plays an important role in determining prices. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of investors' emotional behavior with the role of moderator of public confidence in stock prices in companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. This research is correlational in nature and content. In this research, the information related to 142 companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange, which have formed a statistical sample, has been analyzed in the period of 2011-2011. The results of this model show the emotional behavior of investors with the moderating role of public confidence on the stock price in companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. Also, the adjusted coefficient of determination of the model is 0.446. This means that the independent variables of the research model can explain 44.6% of the variances of the dependent variable stock price