emotions

Optimism is good for you, and brain scientist John Medina explains the simple way to increase it.

Software giant Microsoft has been granted a patent for glasses that, the patent claims, can measure human emotions. Of particular interest is that the glasses are intended to work in both directions: they measure both the emotional state of…

Everything in conversion optimization comes down to the customer making a decision... Yes or no. That’s the clutch point in conversion optimization. Leading up to this decision is the process of decision making.

Researchers at Finland's Aalto University have produced a set of images showing where in their bodies people experience different emotions. Their news release states, For example, anxiety may be experienced as pain in the chest,…

One of the ongoing controversies in neuromarketing is how well current techniques can identify specific emotions. While there's general agreement that attention and emotional engagement can be tracked, identifying specific emotions with…

The hottest new thing in neuromarketing is facial coding - the reading of fleeting facial expressions to determine true emotional reaction. Although the concept isn't new - it dates to Paul Ekman's groundbreaking research in the 1950s to…

Once again, it's time for the "Readers' Choice" Neuromarketing picks for the year. These posts aren't my own choices, but are selected because they garnered the most traffic from tweets, Facebook shares, Stumbleupon clicks, and so on.…

Emotional ads are processed quite differently by the brain than those that appeal to logic, according to a new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology and Economics shows that . That might seem like old news to…

Does your brand or business have an emotional connection with at least some of its customers? If so, that's a very good thing. A new study of retail chains showed that while just one in five consumers felt they had an emotional…

Have you ever annoyed a potential customer, or made her angry? Before you decide to ignore the faux pas and press forward with the pitch, or write her off and move on to greener pastures, try this simple technique: say, "I'm sorry."…