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

Depression and anxiety triggers are ‘best practices’ in bad journalism

“These days, no national news network is trusted by more than half of American adults. And that’s a problem.”

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11 min

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Amanda Ripley

Love, sex, and happiness, explained by philosophy | Jonny Thomson: Full Interview

“Plato would argue that sex in and of itself is not what true love is. Sex can reach a point where you are in union with that person, where you see behind their appearances and you see behind the flesh and you experience something which is more transcendental.”

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32 min

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Jonny Thomson

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Physicist Brian Cox explains quantum physics in 22 minutes

“Quantum mechanics and quantum entanglement are becoming very real. We’re beginning to be able to access this tremendously complicated configuration space to do useful things.”

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22 min

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Brian Cox

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The genius behind “BBL Drizzy” on maximizing creativity with AI

“We’re at a very critical point in human history where things are about to change dramatically. One of the beauties of these AI tools is you now can just be anything that you dreamt of being.”

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6 min

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Willonius Hatcher

Perception Box

Dhar Mann on failure, fatherhood, and the spreadsheet that changed his life

How the 40-year-old entrepreneur and media mogul learned from his struggles, and why he believes accountability is the real secret to happiness.

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8 min

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Dhar Mann