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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with

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

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

Sam Harris: Breaking the thought trap of anger

“You can’t possibly exaggerate how much better it is to live in a peaceful, orderly society, and to be wealthy, and healthy, and surrounded by people who you love.”

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21 min

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Sam Harris

Perception Box

Paralyzed, Alana Nichols thought her athletic career was over. Then she changed her mind.

Rediscovering competition in an unexpected place helped her rewrite what was possible — and go on to win gold.

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8 min

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Alana Nichols

CIA psychology: Ask questions that make people reveal everything

“CIA classifies their secrets according to different terminology. There’s confidential secrets, there are secret level secrets, and then there are top secret secrets. And the way that they define each of these different levels actually has to do with the impact that would occur if the secret became public knowledge.”

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17 min

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Andrew Bustamante