The Best of the Brain from Scientific American: Mind, Matter, and Tomorrow's Brain (Edited by Floyd E. Bloom MD; Dana Press, 270 pp.) is a wide-ranging compilation of brain science articles from Scientific American and Scientific American Mind. The authors of the articles include both renowned scientists, like Nobelist Erik Kandel of Columbia…

"Remember that a man's name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in any language." So said Dale Carnegie, famed author of How to Win Friends and…

When we wrote our recent review of Emotionomics: Winning Hearts and Minds by Dan Hill, our interest in facial coding was sparked. Or, perhaps, re-sparked; when…

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Emotionomics: Leveraging Emotions for Business Success by Dan Hill (Beaver's Pond Press) builds on the premise that "facial coding," the interpreting of the…

Would wine thought to be from California taste better than wine from North Dakota, even if it was poured from the same bottle? It's no surprise that the…

This may not be news to parents of small kids, but branding is a potent force even among preschool children. A new study of preschoolers in California shows…

The Mating Mind. A prof at the University of New Mexico has an interesting suggestion: the evolution of the human brain was largely driven by finding better…

What does your marketing program smell like? If you have difficulty answering that question, you need to get up to speed on the powerful impact that's possible…