The New York Times, MS-NBC, The National Post, Forbes and just about everyone else reported yesterday on a study on happiness from researches at the University of British Columbia and Harvard, published in this month's Science Magazine. Subjects were given a couple different amounts of money and asked to spend it either on themselves or others. Here's the money quote (pun intended) from the abstract:
Next I'm sure she'll publish a study that proves that older cousins who are not yet published in prestigious scholarly journals get depressed when considering the accomplishments of their own lives... just kidding Lara -- way to go!
"...participants who were randomly assigned to spend money on others experienced greater happiness than those assigned to spend money on themselves."What amazed me about this story is not so much the conclusion, as one of the three authors -- Lara Aknin. Holy crap my little cousin -- who I remember holding as an infant -- is published in Science Magazine (!).
Next I'm sure she'll publish a study that proves that older cousins who are not yet published in prestigious scholarly journals get depressed when considering the accomplishments of their own lives... just kidding Lara -- way to go!
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