Brainfluence
Roger Dooley is the author of Brainfluence: 100 Ways to Persuade and Convince Consumers with Neuromarketing, and has been studying the effects of psychology, behavior research, and neuroscience on persuasion and marketing in business, leadership and everyday life.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 1
- Latest publication
- Aug 24, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Aug 24, 2026
Latest episodes
Cockroaches, Bridges, and Beer: The Weirdest Experiments in Behavioral Science (opens the original)
Read excerpt
In this solo Brainfluence episode, Roger Dooley argues that the strangest-looking experiments in behavioral science are usually the most useful ones. He opens in 1969, when psychologist Robert Zajonc put 72 cockroaches through mazes in front of an audience of other cockroaches. That setup wasn't a joke. It was a precise piece of engineering: strip out self-consciousness, and you can finally see whether an audience by itself changes performance. The organizing idea comes from Dan Ariely, who desc
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.