8 Ways That Money Can Buy Happiness

Date: Dec 29 2012

Filed under: Personal Finance, Lifestyle

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“If money doesn’t make you happy, then you probably aren’t spending it right.”

That’s the excellent and descriptive title of a paper published last year in the Journal of Consumer Psychology by the University of British Columbia’s Elizabeth W. Dunn, Harvard’s Daniel T. Gilbert, and UVA’s Timothy D. Wilson.

The paper, which summarizes decades of study on the subject, notes that “money allows people to do what they please, to live longer and healthier lives, to buffer themselves against worry…

8 Ways That Money Can Buy Happiness originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-12-29T07:00:00Z.

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