Behavioral psychologist tells attendees what to do when client logic leaves the room
By John Sullivan
“Ever had a conversation with a client about money and logic got up and left the room?” Ted Klontz, Ph.D, asked the audience at the annual National Association of Personal Financial Advisors conference in Salt Lake City Wednesday afternoon.
Klontz, an author [...]
Reviewed by David M. Kinchen
Mind Over Money qualifies as a “lightbulb” book, my designation of a self-help book that generates “lightbulb” or “aha” moments as I read it. Using a scale of four lightbulbs as the highest rating, I’m giving Mind Over Money all four.
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September 30, 2009
Learn how money issues are affecting your employees and organization and how “money scripts” shape our financial behavior. In this episode, our featured interview with Dr. Brad Klontz, clinical psychologist, author and expert on the psychology of money. Also, a discussion of how employees respond to being given more autonomy and control at [...]
By Laura Rowley
Money conflicts can sink a relationship, even in households that aren’t struggling financially. A study published in the Journal of Socio-Economics, for example, found that women argue with their significant others about money more than any other topic, including love, children, in-laws, leisure, drinking, chores, other women, and religion.
The first step to avoiding [...]
October 14, 2009 By PATRICIA KITCHEN patricia.kitchen@newsday.com
But Brad Klontz, is quoted in a recent Newsday article about the psychological effects of the Dow Jones Index hitting 10,000 again after the long economic downturn.
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H&R Block Inc. is hoping to improve teens’ “financial fitness.” The tax preparation company is distributing more than $1 million to subsidize high school personal-finance programs featuring interactive computer exercises, online training videos, written course materials and lesson plans. So far, more than 2,000 high schools nationwide have signed up to participate.
Brad Klontz is the spokesperson [...]
Brad Klontz was recently quoted in a New York Times article entitled, “All This Anger Against the Rich May Be Unhealthy.” The articles discussed how even people with sizable fortunes were concerned about money in this recession and the impact that could have on the rest of us. In the article Brad discusses money scripts [...]
Meet Paul, 55, Tampa…
My father picked up Dr. Carter by the lapels of his jacket, and raised him a foot off the ground, and slammed him against the Dr.’s shiny new Thunderbird convertible, and screamed “if you ever step foot on my property again, or ask me or my family for money, I will [...]
By Steve Bucci
Feeling hopeless and overwhelmed by your debt obligations can come from not having a plan that will get your debts behind you by a certain date. It can also stem from what my colleague, financial psychologist Dr. Brad Klontz, calls “scripting.” His latest book, “Wired for Wealth” helps people examine their early beliefs [...]
By Helen Kirwan-Taylor
The extreme financial conditions experienced this year are tipping even the most robust of characters over the edge. One minute we’re doomed, then there’s sign of hope, then it’s all gloom again.
US-based Brad Klontz is part of the new wave of financial psychologists looking at the toll the markets are taking on our [...]
