Neuromarketing - Where Brain Science and Marketing Meet

Paul Zak, Director of Claremont?s Center for Neuroeconomic Studies, was awarded a $1.5 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to continue researching, ?Oxytocin and the Neurobiology of Human Virtues: Resilience, Generosity, and Compassion.? The grant follows directly from Zak?s previous Templeton Foundation-funded research on the role…

Often, neuromarketing and neuroeconomic research seems to mostly confirm what we already knew, but a study at the University of Oregon produced results that are…

Do you think there's something wrong with this promo? It's a milk chocolate circle, originally wrapped in gold foil, embossed with the firm's name, "Foot…

Employing cognitive science to creation of a new ad for cranberry juice may have been a key factor in the ad's scoring in the top 10% of a recall test of over…

Stephanie West Allen, author of Idealawg, is teaming up with Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz of UCLA to write a new blog, Brains on Purpose, on how neuroscience can help…

We've covered the concept of buying pain here frequently, but haven't seen much about how giving away money affects the brain. Two new studies shed some light…

Hitachi has introduced a wearable brain scanner targeted at a variety of applications, one of which is neuromarketing. The halo-like device is portable,…

I recall the first mega-store that opened locally - it happened to be a Meijer store, though now Super Wal-Marts, Super Targets, and other stores that sell…

We've discussed priming - the idea that an attitude or concept can be activated in an individual by subtle cues without conscious awareness - multiple times…

We recently covered new research that showed an interesting inversion of feelings about decisions in our post, Simple Marketing for Complex Products. Simply…