2021
09-08-2021
Cultural values influence what goes viral on social media
Vignesh Ramachandan / The Stanford Report
03-08-2021
Brain activity data may improve stock market forecasts, study shows
Linda Geddes / The Guardian
Press
2020
03-11-2020
‘Neuroforecasting’ Predicts Which Videos Will Be Popular
Taylor Kubota / Futurity
2019
01-02-2019
Brain Scans Better Predict Drug Relapse
Nathan Collins / Futurity
2017
12-19-2017
An Electrical Brain Switch Shuts Off Food Cravings
Simon Makin / Scientific American
08-22-2017
Scanning Your Brain Can Predict What Will Happen In The Future
Helen Thomsen / New Scientist
07-26-2017
Neuroscience Offers Insights Into The Opioid Epidemic
Faye Flam / Bloomberg
07-08-2017
This Is The Best Way To Find Acceptance In Any Kind Of Group
Milenko Martinovich / World Economic Forum
02-23-2017
Could a ‘Bored’ Brain Predict Teen Drug Abuse?
Nathan Collins / Futurity
2016
03-25-2016
Scientists can now watch the brain evaluate risk
Ed Yong / The Atlantic
01-06-2016
How Images Trigger Empathy
Amos Zeeberg / The Atlantic
01-01-2016
Deep Science
Brian Knutson / The Edge
2015
06-01-2015
The Neurology of Lending
Wray Herbert / The Huffington Post
01-18-2015
The Robot with a Hidden Agenda
Brian Knutson / The Edge
2014
01-15-2014
Emotion is Peripheral?
Brian Knutson / The Edge
2013
10-23-2013
The Selfish Reasons Behind Why We Give
Maia Szalavitz / Time
06-01-2013
You Make Better Decisions if You “See” Your Senior Self
Hal Hershfield / Harvard Business Review
05-13-2013
Video Game to Help Kids Fight Cancer
Larry Greenemeier / Scientific American
04-15-2013
The Risk Gene
Christopher Dickey / Newsweek
01-15-2013
Metaworry
Brian Knutson / The Edge
2012
02-24-2012
Bad Habits? My Future Self Will Deal With That
Alina Tugend / The New York Times
01-15-2012
Expected Value (and beyond)
Brian Knutson / The Edge
2011
12-18-2011
Brain Strain: Christmas shopping when money is tight
Malcolm Ritter / The Wall Street Journal
11-03-2011
(anti)complementarity
Brian Knutson / British Psychology Society Research Digest
09-26-2011
A neuro-economist explains the latte dilemma: Are you really gonna pay $4 for that coffee?
Dan Weissmann / National Public Radio (WBEZ Chicago)
09-19-2011
Stanford researchers predict long-term personal finances in the lab
Max McClure / Stanford Report
08-31-2011
Better Trading Through Science
Nikhil Hutheesing / Bloomberg
08-03-2011
The Self-Storage Craze
Tom de Castella / British Broadcasting Corporation
06-10-2011
Can brain scans predict music sales?
Greg Miller / Science
05-01-2011
Probing the Investor’s Brain
Brian Knutson / Global Investor
01-20-2011
Replicability
Brian Knutson / The Edge
2010
01-07-2010
Pay Attention, Please
Christine Rosen / The Wall Street Journal
08-29-2010
The Objective Study of Subjectivity
Brian Knutson / The Chronicle Review
07-01-2010
When I’m 64
Valerie Ross / Scientific American
04-27-2010
Lizard brains, tulip mania help explain economic meltdown
Dave Shiflett / Bloomberg
02-01-2010
On financial decisions, older isn’t always wiser
Carolyn Johnson / Boston Globe
01-01-2010
Hijacking the Future Self
Brian Knutson / The Edge
2009
08-12-2009
Seeking
Emily Yoffe / Slate
07-01-2009
6 common shopping traps — And how to avoid them
Aimee Lee Ball / Oprah
01-01-2009
Neurophenomics + targeted stimulation = psychological optimization?
Brian Knutson / The Edge
2008
12-24-2008
When waiting is the hardest part
Brian Knutson / The Edge
12-22-2008
Your brain on shopping
Carey Goldberg / Boston Globe
12-19-2008
Brain imaging maps journey from anticipation to action
Joan Arehart-Treichel / Psychiatry News
11-01-2008
This is your brain on bargains
Joan Hamilton / Stanford Magazine
06-19-2008
It’s mine, I tell you
The Economist
06-11-2008
Parting’s sweet sorrow
Stephen Mitchell / Science NOW
06-11-2008
Why it hurts to sell your stuff
Katharine Sanderson / Nature News
06-11-2008
Possession is nine-tenths the perceived value
Alan Mozes / U. S. News & World Report
06-11-2008
Scientists discover why a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
Roger Highfield / Telegraph
04-04-2008
Sex and financial risk linked in the brain
Seth Borenstein / Associated Press
04-03-2008
A little anxiety pays sometimes, study shows
Association for Psychological Science
04-02-2008
Study shows that stimuli unrelated to decision can still influence men’s choices
Louis Bergeron / Stanford Report
03-26-2008
Depressed brain shows conflict with reward
United Press International
02-07-2008
Craving the high that risky trading can bring
Jenny Anderson / New York Times
1997-2007
11-14-2007
Politics and the brain
Adam Aron et al. / New York Times
10-08-2007
This is your brain on advertising
Amber Haq / Business Week
09-10-2007
Hidden persuasion or junk science?
Mya Frazier / Advertising Age
08-23-2007
Your money and your brain
Jason Zweig / Money
05-18-2007
Neuromarketing careers
Mark Caldwell / Science
04-29-2007
Younger generation has a greater fear of loss
Zoe Smeaton / New Scientist
04-29-2007
Hearts & minds
Jonah Lehrer / Boston Globe
01-29-2007
Marketing to your mind
Alice Park / Time
01-16-2007
The voices in my head say ‘buy it!’ Why argue?
John Tierney / New York Times
01-04-2007
When your brain goes shopping
Martin Enserink / Science
11-01-2006
Hello, sucker
Donna Rosato / Money
09-01-2006
Dollars and sense
Heather Millar / Spirit
09-01-2006
Joy to the world
Kara Platoni / Stanford Magazine
05-04-2006
Money motivates memory, study finds
Aditi Risbud / Stanford Report
04-20-2006
Enter the Neuro-Economists: Why do investors do what they do?
Tyler Cowen / New York Times
03-18-2006
Happiness, Inc.
Jeffrey Zaslow / Wall Street Journal
02-14-2006
This is your brain on money
Matthew Herper / Forbes
02-01-2006
Mapping the trader’s brain
Adam Levy / Bloomberg Markets
01-19-2006
The thrill is wrong
Jason Zweig / Money
11-18-2005
Neuroscientists welcome Dalai Lama with mostly open arms
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee / Science
11-06-2005
Taking the best from east, west
Lisa M. Krieger / San Jose Mercury News
09-27-2005
Areas of brain linked to risky, risk-averse financial choices, researchers find
Lisa Trei / Stanford Report
09-25-2005
Brain research plumbs our money emotions
Janet Kidd Stewart / The Chicago Tribune
08-31-2005
Battle in the brain predicts risky behaviour
Roxanne Khamsi / Nature News
08-31-2005
Bad investment? Blame your brain
Amanda Gardner / Forbes
08-31-2005
Where bonehead investments come from
Heidi Hardman / Neuron Press Release
05-31-2005
Advertisers tap brain science
Randy Dotinga / Wired
05-05-2005
The economics of brains
Gregory T. Huang / Technology Review
04-01-2005
Mind over money
Siri Carpenter / APS Observer
02-25-2005
Brainstorming: Neuromarketing seen as way to boost product appeal
Andreas von Bubnoff / The Monterey Herald
01-15-2005
Mind games
John Smutniak / The Economist
01-15-2005
The biology of joy
Dan Cray / Time
11-16-2004
Buy? Sell? How do you make up your mind?
Jessica Yu / Stanford Daily
08-26-2004
Revenge is indeed sweet, study finds
Lauran Neergaard / Associated Press
08-26-2004
Revenge really is sweet, study shows
Maggie Fox / Reuters
02-06-2004
Marketers see riches in brain data
Carrie Peyton-Dahlberg / Sacramento Bee
02-04-2004
Teen brains show low motivation
Gaia Vince / New Scientist
12-31-2002
Born to be happy, through a twist of human hard wire
Richard A. Friedman / New York Times
11-06-2001
‘Behavioral’ addictions: Do they exist?
Constance Holden / Science
08-09-2001
Don’t worry about it
Sylvia Westphal / New Scientist
07-28-2001
Don’t look now, but is that dog laughing?
Susan Milius / Science News
02-28-2000
Is the market on Prozac?
Randolph M. Nesse / The Third Culture
06-15-1998
Furry amusing
People Magazine
03-15-1998
Prozac makes the glass half full?
Constance Holden / Science
03-01-1998
Personality, thought to be stable over time, changes in healthy people who take a widely-used antidepressant
Jeffrey Norris / UCSF News Release
12-01-1997
Afterword
Peter Kramer / Listening to Prozac