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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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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Karen Hao

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Fraud abounds — meet the three kinds of people stealing your money

Fraud is a $5 trillion “industry.” But not all its perpetrators look alike. Kelly Richmond Pope, a professor of accounting, breaks down who commits fraud — and why.

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8 min

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Kelly Richmond Pope

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The psychology of persuasion, as told by an Ivy League professor

It just takes one “yes.” Wharton professor Jonah Berger shares his three tips for getting what you want from others.

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6 min

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Jonah Berger

How the body keeps the score of trauma

Acclaimed psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, author of “The Body Keeps The Score,” discusses the widespread existence of trauma and how it settles in our bodies.

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Bessel van der Kolk

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