Dear Tipsters,
My colleague Steve Black points to an article that suggests that
money is not positively related to happiness. You may or may not be
aware of fellow-tipster Dave Myers work in this area (see his
introductory text, book on the psychology of happiness and recent
contribution to
Stuart Mckelvie wrote:
You may or may not be
aware of fellow-tipster Dave Myers work in this area (see his
introductory text, book on the psychology of happiness and recent
contribution to the American Psychologist special issue. He shows
that when income level and subjective happiness are
On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Jeff Ricker went:
She referred to the work of a former teacher of mine at the
University of Illinois--UC, Ed Diener, who "discovered the same
trend [mentioned by Stuart with regard to David Myers' work] within
borders: the rich Americans he surveyed were, on average, only
David Epstein wrote:
I'm fascinated and encouraged by research on the wealth/happiness
question (though my acquaintance with it is chiefly distilled through
mass-media blurbs). But I wish we could do it as a real experiment
with random assignment and repeated measures.
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