Higher income improves life rating but not emotional well-being
Research shows that happiness increases with earnings - up to a pointMoney can't buy you love, but it can make you happier if you are not a high earner, according to a Nobel prizewinning psychologist.A survey of 1,000 Americans found that happiness rose in line with salary, but only until people earned $75,000 a year, the equivalent of around £50,000.Earning more than this did nothing to boost how happy people were, according to Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist at Princeton University in New Jersey, who won the Nobel prize for economics in 2002.Kahneman teamed up with Angus Deaton, an economist at Princeton, to analyse 450,000 responses to a daily survey on happiness and life satisfaction run by Gallup in 2008 and 2009.The survey asked people to rate how happy they felt each day, based on their experiences of emotions such as joy, worry, sadness and fascination. They were then asked to rate their overall satisfaction with life, on a scale where zero was the worst they could imagine life to be and 10 being the
Higher income improves life rating but not emotional well-being
(PhysOrg.com) -- People's life evaluations rise steadily with income, but their reported quality of emotional daily experience levels off at a certain income level, according to a new study ...
Tue 7 Sep 10 from PhysOrg
Can money buy happiness? Maybe, up to $75,000
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Can money really make you happy? Not really, but up to about $75,000 a year can ease the pain of life's stresses, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
Wed 8 Sep 10 from Reuters
Report: Money can buy you happiness, to a point
They say money can't buy happiness. They're wrong.
Tue 7 Sep 10 from USA today
Report: Money Can Buy You Happiness, to a Point, Tue 7 Sep 10 from U.S. News
Report: Money can buy you happiness, to a point, Tue 7 Sep 10 from AP
£50,000-a-year can buy you happiness - after that its down to you
Money can buy you happiness but only if you earn £50,000 a year - after that you really have to work for it, a study claims.
Mon 6 Sep 10 from Telegraph.co.uk Science
The price of happiness? £50,000pa
Research shows that happiness increases with earnings - up to a pointMoney can't buy you love, but it can make you happier if you are not a high earner, according to a Nobel prizewinning psychologist.A ...
Mon 6 Sep 10 from Guardian.co.uk
Money Buys Happiness Only Up to a Point
Above about $75,000 income, money doesn't do much for your emotional well-being.
Mon 6 Sep 10 from Livescience
Mythbuster: Money Can Buy At Least A Little Happiness
Thu 9 Sep 10 from Emaxhealth
Money Can Only Buy So Much Happiness
Money may shape your outlook on life, but it can only buy so much when it comes to your daily happiness, a study suggests.
Tue 7 Sep 10 from WebMD
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