Money can buy happiness... but not how you think!

Want to buy happiness? Spend your money on someone else!
At least that's what researchers at UBC and Harvard Business school report in an article (from March, sorry for the delay!) in Science magazine. They asked subjects to rate their happiness on a scale of 1-10, for a baseline. Then they gave them some money and told half of them to spend it on themselves, and the other half to spend it on someone else. The results?
Subjects who spent money on others were happier than those who spent it only on themselves. Even spending just $5 on someone else made individuals feel happier than whatever they could've bought for themselves....
Surprised? Well perhaps its gotten lost in the hubbub of modern society, but the naturalists understood this concept just 100-200 yrs ago:
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no person can
sincerely try to help another without helping themselves." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=news-bytes-can-money-make-you-happy
http://www.livescience.com/health/080320-happiness-money.html
http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/yes-money-can-buy-happiness/

Science Article:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;319/5870/1687?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&andorexacttitleabs=and&fulltext=money+happiness&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/319/5870/1687?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&andorexacttitleabs=and&fulltext=money+happiness&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT




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