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August 18, 2010
New research suggests that determining property ownership may be an intuitive process—one more fundamental than society’s laws and regulations. 
August 10, 2010
New research reveals that reminders of wealth impair our capacity to savor life's little pleasures.
July 1, 2010
A worldwide survey revealed that while life satisfaction usually rises with income, positive feelings don't necessarily follow.
February 9, 2010
Neuroscientists have tied the human aversion to losing money to a specific structure in the brain—the amygdala.
December 11, 2009
Researchers found that being paid by the hour had a greater impact on your wellbeing than getting a salary as you feel a greater connection between effort and reward.
December 10, 2009
Thinking of rewarding your sales department for a job well done? You might not want to make cash part of the pay-off.
November 2, 2009
The so-called "silver spoon" effect—in which wealth is passed down from one generation to another—is well established in some of the world's most ancient economies.
September 28, 2009
The "pennies a day" marketing scheme has been around a long time, and whoever came up with it showed extraordinary psychological insight. Indeed, science is only now beginning to demonstrate what these marketers sensed intuitively—that people are not entirely rational when it comes to processing numbers.
September 17, 2009
A series of studies which tested the symbolic power of money found that although it may not buy us love, it does has a strong effect on our emotions.
July 20, 2009
Money may have a bigger psychological impact on us than we realize. A new study finds that merely thinking about money can affect how we perceive physical pain and feelings of social rejection.
April 2, 2009
A behavioral scientist discusses the irrational human impulses that led to the economic downturn.
March 27, 2009
What would you prefer: a three per cent wage rise at five per cent inflation? Or a two per cent wage-cut with stable prices?
March 6, 2009
People’s creditworthiness, it seems, can be seen in their looks.
December 16, 2008
Economists have created a new data set that enables them to explain differences in countries’ incomes based on their people’s ancestral histories.
October 1, 2008
Higher levels of testosterone are correlated with financial risk-taking behavior, helping to shed light on the evolutionary function and biological origins of risk taking.
July 10, 2008
Recent studies have shown that money is not only a device for gaining wealth, but a factor in personal performance, interpersonal relations and helping behavior, as well.
April 7, 2008
A new brain-scan study may help explain what's going on in the minds of financial titans when they take risky monetary gambles—sex.
March 13, 2008
Ever wondered why the horse you back never wins a race, or why any shares you buy promptly fall in value? It's not bad luck, researchers say. It's bad brainwaves.
February 20, 2008
Evolutionary economics explains why irrational financial choices were once rational.
January 30, 2008
For thousands of years, human beings have relied on commodity barter as an essential aspect of their lives. Despite the importance of this behavior, little is known about how barter evolved and developed.
January 25, 2008
People do not just say they enjoy expensive things more than cheap ones. They actually do enjoy them more.
January 16, 2008
Evolution accounts for a lot of our strange ideas about finances.
October 30, 2007
People who are optimistic are more likely than others to display prudent financial behaviors.
August 27, 2007
People often pay more attention to price tags than to real value. Researchers discuss when money illusion can affect markets (eg. the housing market).
May 2, 2007
Losing money may be intrinsically linked with fear and pain in the brain. Researchers have shown that during a gambling task, losing money activated an area of the brain involved in responding to fear and pain.
November 17, 2006
It's often said that money changes people. Now a team of experimental psychologists has found that just thinking of money changes people.
October 25, 2005
Parents whose grown children have not yet flown the nest can only sympathize with the Western bluebird. As with humans, though, as the money runs low, the kids split.
August 24, 2005
Most people are not natural gamblers, reveals a study of the game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire? As a group, contestants would take home a lot more money if they took more risks.
August 15, 2005
But only relative to your peers' income.
June 20, 2005
The basic economic theory that people work harder to avoid losing money than they do to make money is shared by monkeys, suggesting this trait has a long evolutionary history.
July 9, 2004
A recent study finds a strong link between religious affiliation and wealth in the U.S., with Jews earning the most, and conservative Protestants the least.
September 17, 2003
"Religion keeps coming up in any model you run to explain wealth," said Lisa Keister, author of the study. "It's something you can't ignore, but there's been little effort to explain the connection between religion and wealth accumulation."
June 13, 2003
For many people who follow America's financial markets, it is clear that economic decisions people make are not always rational. A study now offers one neurological explanation: people's choices can depend in part on what region of their brain emerges victorious from a battle between centers of emotional impulse and rational thinking.
May 29, 2003
One reason married couples argue about money may be because they don’t even agree on how much of it they have, new research suggests. The typical husband says the couple earns 5 percent more income and has 10 percent more total wealth than the wife reports, according to a nationwide study.
Meanwhile, the typical wife says the family’s debts are about $500 more than reported by her husband. And both husbands and wives report that their spouses earn less than their spouses say they do.
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