Your Brain’s BS Detector for Prices

Ever wonder why some prices just feel wrong? When you see a luxury watch for $19.99 or a pack of gum for $20, your brain immediately knows something's not right. It turns out there's actual neuroscience behind this instinctive reaction. A…

Why Expensive Wine Tastes Better

For Neuromarketing readers, it's not big news that the perception of wine drinkers is altered by what they know about the wine (see Wine and the Spillover Effect, for example). Now, researchers at Stanford and Caltech have demonstrated…

Emotional Ads Work Best

The idea that ads engaging us emotionally perform better than those relying solely on logic may seem obvious to many Neuromarketing readers. Yet, I still encounter business executives who remain skeptical, believing they are not…

Don’t Bungle Your Bundles

Does grouping products together into a single-price bundle increase the perception of value? Most of us would answer "yes," but surprising research shows there is at least one condition where such grouping can actually reduce the apparent…