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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with

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

The Well

The ocean is evolving, and it’s not based on the ‘survival of the fittest’

The ocean is evolving, and it’s not based on the ‘survival of the fittest.’ Astrobiologist Betül Kaçar explains how it’s not competition that has kept the ocean alive, but collaboration.

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3 min

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Betül Kaçar

The science-backed guide to having better sex

“Virtually everything we’re taught about sexuality for the first two decades of our lives is wrong.”

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01:25:59 min

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with

Emily Nagoski

A magnifying glass focusing on concentric circles against a plain teal background.

Brian Cox: The Planck scale is where physics breaks

“It’s a very, very beautiful calculation, but it’s the best example I know of the relationship between these rather abstract quantities perhaps and something that you can look at in a telescope.”

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19 min

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Brian Cox

The Well

A philosopher’s guide to caring deeply

According to philosopher Meghan Sullivan, effective altruism may overlook the moral importance of seeing others as individuals. She explains how love should guide how we care for both present and future humans.

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3 min

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Meghan Sullivan

A woman in a pink suit sits on a chair against a white backdrop while U.S. dollar bills fall around her on a black background.

Legal fraud: How the books get cooked

“Fraud never sleeps. It’s really a global problem. Fraud is a trillion dollar problem, about $5 trillion today, with that number increasingly rising annually.”

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01:40:02 min

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Kelly Richmond Pope