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Happiness: Lessons from a New Science

In Western countries, median incomes have doubled in the past 50 years, but Layard, a London economist, claims that people aren't any happier for it. The author explores wealth and many other things that people associate with happiness, but he shows that more often than not, the correlation isn't perfect...

Buying happiness: we find material goods less fulfilling

Philosophers since Aristotle have claimed that experiences fulfill us more than material goods. To test this claim, a pair of psychology professors examined discretionary spending on material purchases (such as jewelry or clothing) and experiential ones (such as vacations or tickets to a concert.....

The pleasure paradox: money doesn't bring happiness

HAPPINESS IS STUBBORN--hard to find, difficult to augment. Circumstances under our control (employment, education, money) account for only about 10 to 15 percent of our "subjective well-being," the technical term for how good we judge life to be. Happiness is largely due to personality traits and temperament.....

The Pursuit Of Happiness - entrepreneurs often feel that they have to concentrate on business to the exclusion of having a happy personal life

Can't get no satisfaction? Maybe it's time to change your tune.

Remember the kids' song that goes, "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands"? If I posed that to you today, would you be clapping? And we're not only wondering whether you're happy with your business - we're examining whether you're happy with your life.

The science of happiness...

It's one of those things, like art, that's hard to define, yet we know it when we see it. What exactly is happiness and how can you get it? .....