are correlated in
different countries, there is very little relationship (except
perhaps at the very low end where necessities are involved).
There also is a new book that talks about this and other research
involving happiness and moods in general:
Braun, S. (2000). The science of happiness
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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