When viewing sexy pictures, will men or women focus more on the faces of the participants? Surprisingly, men tend to look at the faces more than women, according to a new eye-tracking study conducted at the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN) in Atlanta. Researchers hypothesized women would look at faces and men at genitals, but,…

Last week we posted about Seth Godin's Joy/Cash Curve and Buying Pain. We think that at least some marketers already understand the problem Godin raises and are…

Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain by Sharon Begley has a title that might lead one to believe it's a how-to or self-help book. It is neither. Rather, it is…

The concept of marginal utility, a favorite of economists, is fairly simple to illustrate: a $20 bill is more useful to a financially strapped college student…

My fellow FutureLab blogger, David Widger, wrote an interesting post, How Many Green Marketers Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb? In it he notes that…

A frequent topic here has been research showing that buying things, particularly items seen as being overpriced, activates the pain centers of the brain (see…

The rising star of brain imaging is magneto-encephalography (MEG). Though the technology is far from new and the device looks like something from a 1950s…

A few days ago I posted about the concept of customer engagement (Branding, Customer Engagement, and Neuromarketing) and in particular some work done by the…

Time Magazine has come up with a hilarious display of best-selling books for 2027, represented by their covers. In addition to sure-fire hits like My Presidency…

One of the great buzzwords in recent years has been "customer engagement," generally taken to mean how emotionally involved customers are with a product or…