Your Brain on Money

8 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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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

The mind-bending physics of time

How the Big Bang gave us time, explained by theoretical physicist.

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8 min

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Sean Carroll

The 10 biggest world threats of 2023, ranked

Rogue Putin is the biggest risk of 2023. Here are the other nine, explained by global political expert Ian Bremmer.

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17 min

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Ian Bremmer

Change bad spending habits in 5 steps

Addicted to spending money you want to save? Here’s how to stop.

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7 min

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Lindsay Bryan-Podvin

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Make it simple. Make it clear. Make it stick. Alan Alda on how to get everyone to understand your thoughts.

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5 min

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Alan Alda

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4 min

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Tyler Cowen