Your Brain on Money

6 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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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

3 steps to cure your money anxiety

We’re afraid to talk about money–and that costs us.

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7 min

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Kathleen Burns Kingsbury

The Well

Tyler Cowen: America is at a critical point in history

“There’s a sense of crisis today that we did not have in the 1980’s or 90’s” — economist Tyler Cowen on progress in America.

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5 min

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Tyler Cowen

How dirty debaters win against better opponents

How to defeat debaters who deal in distractions, according to a two-time world debate champion.

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5 min

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with

Bo Seo

Harvard professor argues for rationality

Is it better to be rational or optimistic? Steven Pinker explains.

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7 min

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Steven Pinker

The mind-blowing stats on male inequality

Male inequality — the enormous cultural shift happening right under our nose.

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15 min

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Richard Reeves