Vdrunk with love and fresh water may not be enough to access emotional well-being … Money is good for happiness, says new study Vanity Fair. In a paper published in 2010, economist Angus Deaton and psychologist Daniel Kahneman noted an increase in life satisfaction in line with rising incomes.
The two Nobel Prize winners in economics, however, explained that the emotional well-being of Americans ceased to improve beyond $ 75,000 per year (nearly 62,000 euros). At the same time as their publication, Matthew Killigsworth, then a doctoral student in psychology at Harvard, developed the iPhone application “Track your happiness” in order to question its users about their emotions and activities.
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Richer, happier
Ten years after its launch, the researcher decided to use it to compare the happiness and income of its users. Matthew Killingsworth, now a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, analyzed the responses of 33,391 American workers.
Its findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, show that, even above $ 75,000 in income per year (or even $ 90,000 per year), the more users increase their purchasing power, the more they express an increase in their emotional well-being. Something to reassure Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk or Bill Gates on days of temporary depression …
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