PowerMeUp » University Of British Columbia http://powermeup.com/self-help Stop Goal Setting and Start Goal Getting Thu, 03 Mar 2011 05:41:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Does Money Buy Happiness? New Research Says Maybe http://powermeup.com/self-help/1090/does-money-buy-happiness-new-research-says-maybe/ http://powermeup.com/self-help/1090/does-money-buy-happiness-new-research-says-maybe/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:52:15 +0000 PowerMeUp http://powermeup.com/self-help/1090/does-money-buy-happiness-new-research-says-maybe/ The common scientific answer to the question, does money buy happiness, has been no. Study after study has shown that once your basic needs are met and you are not living in poverty, more money does not make you happier. Doctors Norton (Harvard Business School), Dunn and Aknin (both at University of British Columbia) wondered if the issue was not that money couldn’t buy happiness but that people simply weren’t spending it in the right way to make themselves happier.

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