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Headline writers have known for years that rankings articles like "Top 10" lists generate clicks. University administrators have simultaneously dismissed USNews college rankings as inaccurate and irrelevant while still striving to improve…

Another week, another few hundred articles and blog posts scanned... here's this week's diverse group of stuff you may find particularly interesting. Hot on the heels of last week's post from Brian Massey naming Austin the Conversion…

We're trying something new here at Neuromarketing - a quick digest of interesting articles we found this week. Expect an eclectic mix of marketing, neuroscience, psychology, digital, and stuff that doesn't fit in any of those categories.…

We've seen a variety of disastrous web design trends over the years. Remember splash pages? All-Flash sites? Frames? We may be on the cusp of a new trend: unstyled ugliness.

Do you want more clicks on your tweets? Or, on your marketing links in emails or ads? Or, if you are a blogger, journalist, or content writer, could you do with more traffic to your articles? A new study by researchers at the BI Norwegian…

Work environments today are noisy and distracting. As Maria Konnikova writes in a recent New Yorker article, open office plans are a big culprit. One study describes the effects of open environments as "damaging to the workers’ attention…

What's the most famous quote from the OJ Simpson "trial of the century?" Those of us old enough to have watched it on TV, or at lease followed the news accounts, would no doubt come up with, "If the gloves don't fit, you must acquit!" This…

After noticing a sharp uptick in Japan-based subscribers to Neuromarketing, I did a little online sleuthing and found that the long-awaited Japanese version of Brainfluence is now being listed by Amazon.jp and other booksellers. The…

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,…

Here's my last summary post for 2013, and for Neuromarketing readers it may be the most useful of all... My Brainy Marketing column at Forbes.com has a strange characteristic - the viewership of each article varies tremendously. My top post…