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Neuroscience and Marketing Books

Books about or related to brain science or neuromarketing.

Love Branding

Review - Love Branding: How to make people fall in love with your brand by Carolin Dahlman Carolin Dahlman has two professions: branding expert and "love coach." While these two callings seem unrelated at first glance, Dahlman thinks…

Six Selling Secrets From Magicians

If you think that magicians and neuroscientists have little to talk about, you'd be wrong: both deal with issues like attention and consciousness, albeit in a different way. And, as it turns out, marketers can learn from both groups, and…

About Face by Dan Hill

Book Review: About Face - The Secrets of Emotionally Effective Advertising by Dan Hill At a time when neuromarketing discussions are dominated by brain scans - EEG on the commercial side, and fMRI for academic research - Dan Hill and…

What Yogurt Can Teach Marketers

I'm not a big yogurt fan. "Live cultures" would be unacceptable (or even scary) in most foods, but are highly prized in yogurt. Nevertheless, we can all learn something from a neuromarketing study focused on the gooey dairy product.

The Buying Brain by A. K. Pradeep

Review: The Buying Brain: Secrets for Selling to the Subconscious Mind by A. K. Pradeep The world of neuromarketing seems to be shrouded in mystery. There are no university studies that conclusively demonstrate that one can improve…

Zilch

Zero does have a seemingly magical impact on our brains (see The Power of Free), though zero isn't always a good thing. Zero resources, for example, are generally not good for business! That's exactly what many non-profit organizations…

The Invisible Gorilla

Review: The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us, by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons Before reading farther, watch this video if you haven't already seen it: The Invisible Gorilla provides an…

Shopper Marketing

Book Review: Shopper Marketing - How to Increase Purchase Decisions at the Point of Sale, Edited by Markus Stahlberg and Ville Maila From a neuromarketing standpoint, the point of sale is a potent place to make a branding impression.…

The Brain That Changes Itself

Book Review: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge For centuries, the human brain was considered largely immutable after childhood. We were told that we had…