Tag: happiness
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Happiness Means Being Just Rushed Enough
Scientific American: Happiness Means Being Just Rushed Enough … However, despite this broad consensus, and its obvious health and quality-of-life implications, there seems little empirical survey evidence that daily life is truly speeding up. … … In that 1965 survey, we found 24 percent of respondents aged 18-64 said they “always” felt rushed, and 48…
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More Proof That Money Can’t Buy Happiness
Business Insider: More Proof That Money Can't Buy Happiness "… University of Missouri Marketing Professor Marsha Richins looks at this phenomenon in a new paper in the Journal of Consumer Research, "When Wanting Is Better Than Having," where she compares high- and low-materialist shoppers. "High-materialist" consumers have much higher expectations of what a product will do…
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Does Income Bring Happiness?
Conversable Economist: Does Income Bring Happiness? Back in 1974, Richard Easterlin published a paper called "Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence" (available here and here, for example). Easterlin raised the possibility that what really matters to most people is not their absolute level of income, but their income level relative to…
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Happiness, Meaning, and a Theology of Work
The Atlantic: There's More to Life Than Being Happy This is a fascinating piece on happiness written by Emily Esfahani Smith as she reflects on the difference between happiness and a meaningful life. I've got some thoughts below but here is one powerful excerpt: … This is why some researchers are cautioning against the pursuit…
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Here Are The Most And Least Happy Careers
Business Insider: Here Are The Most And Least Happy Careers For more top 10 employment lists, go to myplan.com.
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10 Things Happy People Do Differently
Psychology Today: 10 Things Happy People Do Differently Paula Davis-Laack, J.D., M.A.P.P. How happy are you and why? This is a question I spend a fair amount of time thinking about, not only as it applies to my own levels of happiness, but also as it applies to my family, friends, and the people who…
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Intangible Dividend of Antipoverty Effort: Happiness
New York Times: Intangible Dividend of Antipoverty Effort: Happiness When thousands of poor families were given federal housing subsidies in the early 1990s to move out of impoverished neighborhoods, social scientists expected the experience of living in more prosperous communities would pay off in better jobs, higher incomes and more education. That did not happen.…