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Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement? Will you be taking a brain-scan for your next job interview? What is the emerging world of neuromanagement and what does it mean?   |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 8, 2007
Jim Heskett |
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction? The growing use of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) devices for studying decision making means that in 2007 we may hear a number of striking conclusions based on studies involving a small number of brain scans. |
Scientific American
July 2007
Michael Shermer |
The Prospects for Homo economicus A new fMRI study debunks the myth that we are rational-utility money maximizers. |
Finance & Development
September 2009
Jeremy Clift |
Questioning a Chastened Priesthood A profile of psychologist Daniel Kahneman about the psychological research of economic science. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 6, 2009
Jim Heskett |
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World? It is becoming clear that human behavior is much less rational than we assumed. What does this mean for conventional wisdom in areas such as management? |
Wired
September 22, 2008
Ian Mount |
David Laibson: Tweak Human Behavior to Fix the Economy David Laibson, a behavioral economist at Harvard, says many of our problems can be fixed relatively simply. |
The Motley Fool
February 17, 2011
Brad Hessel |
Can Behavioral Economics Boost Your Retirement Savings? Shaped by 190,000 years of pre-civilization experience, humans make bad long-term value choices -- but there's hope yet. |
BusinessWeek
February 20, 2006 |
"Economists Suffer from Physics Envy" In search of a better economics theory, MIT's Andrew Lo says evolutionary dynamics could shed light on why investors behave as they do |
BusinessWeek
April 19, 2004
Joan O'C. Hamilton |
Journey To The Center Of The Mind "Functional" MRI is yielding a clearer picture of what thoughts look like |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2010
Bob Veres |
The Change Equation By giving us better information about precisely how humans are weird, behavioral finance may be able to help advisors be more effective. |
AskMen.com
Tijo Salverda |
Behavioral Economics The study of behavioral economics aims to understand how psychological phenomena like emotions and group dynamics influence economic decisions. Studies have found that people often make decisions that are not in their best interest |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2005
Ruth Halcomb |
Tame Your Inner Lizard An interview with Terry Burnham, a former economist at Harvard who applies biology to the financial markets, says the problem is that the human brain was shaped in the Pleistocene era, back when humans had to forage for food, sabotaging our investing instincts. |
Scientific American
April 2007
Michael Shermer |
Free to Choose The neuroscience of choice exposes the power of ideas. |
Wired
August 2001
Jennifer Kahn |
Let's Make Your Head Interactive The Human Brain Project is combining wet anatomy with next-gen scanning, imaging, and networking to give neuroscience a revolutionary new tool -- the globally accessible online mind... |
Technology Research News
October 3, 2005
Eric Smally |
USC's Michael Arbib The Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science shares his views on trends in science and technology, his work, and the links between technology, neuroscience, and behavior. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2007
Jeff Wise |
Thought Police: How Brain Scans Could Invade Your Private Life In the past decade, a wave of researchers using scans has laid bare the rough schematics of how our brains handle fear, memory, risk-taking, romantic love and other mental processes. Soon, the technology could go even further, pulling back the curtain guarding our most private selves. |
Teacher Magazine
May 2000 |
Brainiacs While fanfare may feed the egos of brain researchers, it worries them, too. According to some scientists, brain research is being oversimplified, misinterpreted, and, most troubling, misapplied. |
BusinessWeek
July 23, 2007
Jena McGregor |
The Business Brain In Close-Up Can neuroscience offer insights into the 'soft' art of leadership? |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 17, 2014
Carmen Nobel |
Neuroscience Marketing: Is the Product Worth the Price? Are consumers more likely to buy if they see the price before the product, or vice versa? Uma Karmarkar and colleagues scan the brains of shoppers to find out. |
Salon.com
March 11, 2002
Mickey Butts |
Oh behave! Why do we buy more when we have less to spend? Behavioral economists can explain... |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2013
Eliza Strickland |
A Wiring Diagram of the Brain Advances in medical imaging allow the Human Connectome Project to map neural connections |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2003
Jeremy Clift |
The Lab Man How experimental economics emerged from the shadows: an interview with Nobel Prize winner Vernon L. Smith |
Salon.com
September 30, 2002
Matthew Blakeslee |
Madison Avenue and your brain New advances in neuroscience are explaining why people just do it, exactly as they're told to, when that commercial comes on. |
Wired
May 19, 2008
Daniel Carlat |
Brain Scans as Mind Readers? Don't Believe the Hype Can Spect scans of the brain really show our mind in action, or are we allowing ourselves to be seduced by images that may actually tell us very little? |
Fast Company
Courtney Seiter |
How Our Brains Decide What We Share Online Google's Abigail Posner says we can't underestimate the importance of understanding the science of emotion in marketing. |
PC Magazine
July 4, 2008
Logan Kugler |
Understanding the Brain As much as we know about the human brain, there's just as much we don't know. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2010
Mark Harris |
MRI Lie Detectors Can magnetic-resonance imaging show whether people are telling the truth? |
CRM
January 2010
Jessica Tsai |
Are You Smarter Than a Neuromarketer Companies have always aimed for the customer's heart, but the head may make a better target. |
Scientific American
January 9, 2006
Philip E. Ross |
Half-Brained Schemes If halving the brain of an epileptic child can suppress debilitating seizures without interfering with the development of normal intellectual abilities, what's all that gray matter good for, anyway? |
Entrepreneur
January 2006
Mark Henricks |
Gray Matters As science unlocks more and more of your brain's secrets, learn how harnessing the power of your greatest asset can create a more productive, more persuasive, more competitive business. |
Psychology Today
Sep/Oct 2006
Katherine Ellison |
Mastering Your Own Mind Distracted? Angry? Envious? There's growing evidence that attention, emotion regulation -- even love -- are skills that can be trained through the practice of meditation. Perhaps it's time for you to become a high-performance user of your own brain. |
The Motley Fool
October 18, 2007
Bill Mann |
Is Your Brain Costing You Money? Here, the author talks neuroeconomics with renowned financial journalist Jason Zweig author of the new book, Your Money and Your Brain. |
Wired
May 19, 2008 |
3 Smart Things About Music Derivations of musical scale pitches... Brain activity during music improvisation... Getting music stuck in your head is really a glitch in the brain... |
Inc.
September 1, 2002
Thea Singer |
The Innovation Factor: Your Brain on Innovation Want to know what makes a creative genius tick? Neuroscience gives us some clues. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2012
Allan S. Roth |
Prediction Addiction Some clients think planners are soothsayers, able to see the future. And while the desire to predict the future is inherently human, it's usually destructive - particularly when it comes to investing. |
BusinessWeek
November 8, 2004
Catherine Arnst |
Redefining Smart Jeff Hawkins tackles his greatest passion, the study of the brain, in his new book "On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines." |
Reason
October 2007
Bryan Caplan |
The 4 Boneheaded Biases of Stupid Voters American economists have a love-hate relationship with systematic bias. Out of all the complaints that economists lodge against laymen, four families of beliefs stand out: the anti-market bias, the anti-foreign bias, the make-work bias, and the pessimistic bias. |
Fast Company
October 2008
Gregory Berns |
Neuroscience Sheds New Light on Creativity What neuroscience reveals about how to come up with new ideas. |
Fast Company
October 19, 2011
Sara Cann |
Is Your Brain Wired To Take Risks? The split-second journey of a risk as it travels through the brain. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Let's Get Small Tim Harris develops tools neuroscientists can use to measure the brain's activity, to give them a quantitative view inside the elaborate structure of the brain. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2012
Mark Anderson |
This Is Your Brain on fMRI The science of mind reading is further along than you might think |
InternetNews
October 16, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Point, Click, Save Your Brain New study suggests link between Internet activity and mental acuity. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2007
Morgen E. Peck |
Researchers Testing New Electric Treatment for Migraines A small DC current through the skull seems to interrupt the headaches and may even prevent them |
