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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with

Lindsay Bryan-Podvin

Change bad spending habits in 5 steps

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7 min

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with

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

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Does hope for humanity rely on philosophy?

From the printing press to the internet, every technological revolution in history has reshaped human thought. Now, with AI accelerating by the day, philosopher Meghan Sullivan asks: Are we ready for the philosophical shift that must follow?

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3 min

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Meghan Sullivan

Helen Fisher: How science can explain heartbreak

Why do we fall in love with one person over another? The late biological anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher unpacks the evolutionary roots of romantic love, sex, and attachment. Using research […]

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01:06:42 min

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Helen Fisher

The ethical crisis lurking in the background of the AI boom

“If we did create beings that were more like non-human animals, we ought to treat them much better than we now treat non-human animals.”

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4 min

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Peter Singer

Why Kevin Smith bet $27,575 on a movie no one showed up for

“You might as well go for it. You might as well do the thing that you dream about doing for heaven’s sake.”

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6 min

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Kevin Smith

A person sits alone on a bench against a yellow background, looking down at a smartphone.

The great friendship collapse: Inside The Anti-Social Century

“You can debate all sorts of things about how the texture of American life has changed. What you can’t debate is the sheer, objective, existential fact that Americans are more alone than ever.”

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12 min

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Derek Thompson