Money CAN Buy Happiness

This article is from 2008 but I thought it was an appropriate start to my ‘how to find happiness’ blog.  This article from Science magazine is a study on the relationship of how people spend money and how happy they are because of it.  There has been a lot of previous research that examines the effect of income on happiness.  The research indicated that income has a reliable but weak effect on happiness, especially after the basic needs are met.  However, even though real incomes have increased in the US over the last few decades, Americans are not reporting to be any happier. 

But why?

This study performed experiments on different groups of people to determine whether spending money on themselves or on others gave them a greater feeling of happiness. 

Welcome!!

My name is Michelle and this is my site that will hopefully give you some fun facts and articles about happiness, health, and life in general.  There are so many different ideas of what is healthy and what isn't that I am hoping to dig deeper into the controversies about what is 'good for you' and what isn't.  This blog will be updated at least once a week for this spring semester, after that, if I am having enough fun with it, it may continue after I graduate and move down to Austin.  I hope my posts will be entertaining and interesting.  Maybe an article will even be applicable to your own life.  If nothing else, they will give you just a teaser of what is out there in the world of science.