Your Brain on Money

11 episodes

Money makes us do things we wish we didn’t, but why is that? Behavioral economists and neuroscientists decode psychological dynamics resulting from 25 million years of human evolution — all so you can make smarter financial decisions.

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How to stop fighting over money

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6 min

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Dr. Brad Klontz

How to fix your money trauma

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7 min

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Dr. Brad Klontz

If money doesn’t buy happiness, you’re spending it wrong

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7 min

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Lindsay Bryan-Podvin

Change bad spending habits in 5 steps

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7 min

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Lindsay Bryan-Podvin

Which “money personality” are you?

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6 min

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Lindsay Bryan-Podvin

3 steps to cure your money anxiety

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7 min

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with

Kathleen Burns Kingsbury

What charity does to your brain

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5 min

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Big Think

How to trick your brain into saving money

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6 min

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Big Think

Want to save more money? Start playing video games.

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6 min

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Big Think

How Apple and Nike have branded your brain

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6 min

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Big Think

The science of ‘herd mentality’

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6 min

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Big Think

What are the consequences of living as a human in an “always on” digital world?

“Part of what’s happening now in the world is tension between organic animals and an inorganic digital system which is increasingly controlling and shaping the entire world.”

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5 min

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Yuval Noah Harari

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“The problem with conspiracy theories is they’re not just telling you a story, they’re telling you a really good story. There’s a hidden cabal behind everything that’s happening, there’s a secret pattern that you just have to be smart enough to detect.”

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8 min

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Brian Klaas

Perception Box

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6 min

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Nicole Vignola

Yuval Noah Harari’s guidebook for navigating the age of AI

“Why is it that the quality of our information did not improve over thousands of years? Why is it that very sophisticated societies have been as susceptible as stone age tribes to mass delusion and the rise of destructive ideologies?”

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75 min

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Yuval Noah Harari