Money really does buy happiness for most people, researchers say

United States News News

Money really does buy happiness for most people, researchers say
United States Latest News,United States Headlines
  • 📰 BusinessInsider
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 24 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 13%
  • Publisher: 51%

Insider tells the global tech, finance, markets, media, healthcare, and strategy stories you want to know.

. In other words, he found no happiness plateau, contradicting Kahneman's research. Killingsworth based his results on happiness rankings recorded by more than 33,000 Americans on a smartphone app.

Their happiness"rises quickly" in the lower range of income before"leveling off abruptly at $100,000 to a near-zero, statistically nonsignificant slope in the higher range of incomes," the researchers wrote. Meanwhile, happiness"increases steadily" along with income among the rest of the population, Killingsworth, Kahneman, and Mellers found. For the happiest 30% of people, happiness rises at an accelerated rate beyond $100,000.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

BusinessInsider /  🏆 729. in US

United States Latest News, United States Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Twitter director: I spent 9 days figuring out whether I'd lost jobInsider tells the global tech, finance, markets, media, healthcare, and strategy stories you want to know.
Read more »

See the pitch deck YC startup Opkit used to raise venture fundingHere's an exclusive look at the pitch deck that Y Combinator alum Opkit, a health insurance verification startup, used to raise funding from investors like Plaid CEO Zach Perret's VC firm
Read more »

Twitter's latest outage caused by single engineer's mistake: reportTwitter's latest outage was reportedly caused by a single engineer's mistake. One employee says the platform is so brittle, 'everything breaks' if engineers change something.
Read more »

Web3 startup Kresus raises $25 million to build crypto superappHere's how a serial founder and former US diplomat raised $25 million to create a crypto superapp — and why it's gotten backing from investors like JetBlue and the Winklevoss twins
Read more »

Chat GPT and generative AI could be halted by copyright lawChatGPT and generative AI could be stopped in their tracks by copyright law. Here's how it could play out.
Read more »

Elon Musk says disabled ex-Twitter employee did 'no actual work'Elon Musk accuses laid-off Twitter employee of using their disability as an 'excuse' to do 'no actual work'
Read more »



Render Time: 2025-03-10 14:27:59