Neuroscience Research

I’ve written about product contagion – the weird ability of one product to “infect” another with its properties (or its "cooties") when they touch in a shopping cart – but there’s a related phenomenon that is, if anything, even stranger.

Here's this week's eclectic mix of worthwhile reading from around the Web. Also, things may look a bit different - check out our new, easier-to-read (we hope!) design. Let us know what you think in a comment!

Roger's picks for the week include how to craft killer ads, how to sell to tightwads, spendthrifts, and everyone else, "the high-heeled hottie effect," and more.

Here's what we discovered this week, with my own new content below:

Want to make your prices seem lower without actually changing them? Here's a research-based technique that will do exactly that, with one small catch... it doesn't work equally well for male and female customers!

We're playing catchup after a rare vacation, so here's the best of the best for the last couple of weeks! Who doesn't want to be James Bond, at least when he isn’t being tortured by a sadistic villain? I'm sure some 007 movie buff will…

Here's our curated list of some great content we found this week! I'm a complete believer in A/B testing, and I'm always skeptical of sure-fire techniques. But a post by Brian Dean (@Backlinko) shows some dramatic results achieved without…

Here's the best stuff we found this week, feel free to add your own pick o'the week in a comment!

Time flies - we've published ten episodes of The Brainfluence Podcast already. This seemed like the perfect time to provide a quick guide to these sessions with some of the world's top experts in persuasion, psychology, neuromarketing, and…

We've got some particularly good finds this week, with several great user experience-related items. Check 'em out, add your own! If you are an engineer, friction is your enemy. That's even more true if you are a web marketer trying to…