How your brain can reveal what you buy
Nudge4 Aug 2025

How your brain can reveal what you buy

Paul Zak can predict what customers buy without speaking to them. He’s even able to boost charitable donations by spraying a donor with hormones. Find out how in today’s episode of Nudge. --- Read Paul’s book Immersion: https://shorturl.at/YcYxu Subscribe to the (free) Nudge Newsletter: https://nudge.ck.page/profile Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phill-agnew-22213187/ Watch Nudge on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nudgepodcast/ --- Today’s sources: Nisbett, R. E., & Wilson, T. D. (1977). Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes. Psychological Review, 84(3), 231–259. Rogers, R. W., & Mewborn, C. R. (1976). Fear appeals and attitude change: Effects of a threat’s noxiousness, probability of occurrence, and the efficacy of coping responses. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 34(1), 54–61. Zak, P. J. (2022). Immersion: The science of the extraordinary and the source of happiness. Lioncrest Publishing.

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