From: Pacific Standard
Be Happier: Spend More Money on Others
February 10, 2014
Pacific Standard:
If you want to feel happier—and who doesn’t—what should you do with that $20 you have in your pocket?
The evidence is clear, according to a new research paper: You should use it to help someone in need.
Psychologists Elizabeth Dunn and Lara Aknin, along with Michael Norton of Harvard Business School, report that the benefits of helping others “are evident in givers old and young in countries around the world, and extend to not only subjective well-being, but also objective health.”
Writing in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science, they demonstrate this counter-intuitive thesis by describing a series of studies, many of which they conducted themselves.
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