Research says spending on experiences over material goods leads to higher rates of joy.

Why New Year's resolutions are like candy.

Insight into why we do what we do with our money.

A research team working at the University of Barcelona has found that when adults are represented by child avatars in a virtual world, they act more like children.

Most Americans don't save enough money to get them out of an emergency or support them in old-age. Why is saving money so difficult for most of us?

Those pieces of paper we call cash only have value because we all believe they do. So, why does our collective faith in money actually work?

A psychiatrist in England is using digital avatars -- almost like characters in a video game -- to help people with schizophrenia put a face to the voices in their heads.

A new book explores how our environment -- everything from colors to music to weather -- affects our decision-making.

One marketing professor's look at why some foods, music and names enter the zeitgeist, while other things don't.