A recurring theme in our neuromarketing posts is that our subconscious mind evaluates situations, makes decisions, and in general does its own thing without our conscious awareness. Our rational, thinking, analytical brain - the thing that separates us from other species - is blissfully unaware of most of this activity. A new book, Mindless…

Neuromarketing and Pricing. Why do people sometimes set prices that are too high, and then stubbornly stick with them despite evidence from the marketplace…

Neuroeconomics finished a respectable runner-up in the 2006 Word of the Year contest run by staffers at Webster's New World College Dictionary. Crackberry, a…

Why do spokespeople in ads who aren't professional actors do so badly most of the time? No doubt we've all seen the ads featuring the owner or sales manager of…

This is one of those experiments that must have raised a few eyebrows during the approval process... "Let's get this straight, you are going to show subjects…

Every human culture has developed some kind of art, and scientists puzzling over art's appeal are proposing a neuroscience-based explanation. Vilayanur…

I'm still catching up on the reading I missed during my extended trip (and posting hiatus) a few weeks ago, and one of the more interesting things I've run…

One of the most successful sectors in the travel industry has been cruising. Megalines like Carnival and others are building ever-bigger ships to handle the…

Last May, we posted Food Ads: How Brains Respond, which discussed research showing that images of food triggered a response in the brain’s reward centers. Now,…

The Prague Post, a popular English-language weekly in the Czech Republic, ran both an article, Picking Your Brain, and an opinion piece, On the brains (and…