Neuroeconomics
Crypto’s “ecology of noise” and how investors try to survive it
A study of nineteen cryptocurrency investors finds that being flooded with conflicting information often produces exhaustion, anxiety, and snap decisions, suggesting that in crypto markets, more information can mean worse choices.
Financial chores take minutes a day but deliver outsized stress, study finds
New research using American Time Use Survey data finds that financial tasks take just 8.3 minutes a day on average but rank among the most stressful and least enjoyable activities, with sharp differences by gender, income, and education.
Knowing more about Bitcoin makes investors more anxious, not bolder
A study of young Indonesian crypto investors found that more Bitcoin knowledge was linked to greater anxiety about missing out, and that this anxiety was associated with a lower, not higher, intention to invest.
The brain chemical behind your money moves: How dopamine shapes financial choices
A new review pulls together decades of research on how dopamine shapes financial decisions, from risk-taking to fairness to learning from feedback.
When illness leads to illegality: How a cancer diagnosis reshapes the decision to commit a crime
A study of Danish administrative records finds that cancer diagnoses are linked to a 14% rise in criminal convictions, driven by lost income, shorter survival horizons, and psychological distress.
The seductive allure of neuroscience: Why brain talk feels so satisfying, even when it explains nothing
A meta-analysis of 60 experiments finds that adding irrelevant neuroscience to explanations reliably boosts how satisfying they feel, but rarely changes what people actually believe.
New research links local employment shocks to cognitive decline in older men
New research using local labor-demand shocks finds that employment losses are linked to measurable cognitive decline among men aged 51 to 64, extending earlier findings about retirement-age workers to the years well before traditional retirement.