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CreditBloggers: Money Can Buy Happiness, After All, as Long as You Don't Spend it on Yo... - 0 views

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  • Elizabeth Dunn, a social psychologist and assistant professor at the University of British Columbia, and Michael Norton, a psychologist and assistant professor at Harvard Business School, told Drake Bennett at The Boston Globe that people get more happiness for their buck if they spend it on experiences rather than material goods. Spending the money to share experiences with other people -- “prosocial spending” -- is especially rewarding in terms of generating happiness, they said.
  • nat bas on 02 Oct 09
     
    cultivate good memories, with money or without.
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Games People Play: Laughs at The Expense of Others - 0 views

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  • MrGhaz . on 26 Nov 09
     
    It is said in the 18th century the American general Israel Putnam once invited a British general to a novel test of nerves. Both were to sit on barrels of gunpowder, and the fuses were to bit lit. The last man to run away would be the winner. The unnamed British general accepted Putman's challenge. But as the fuses burned, he became increasingly fidgety while Putnam sat calmly, smoking his pipe. At the last moment the British general fled. Putnam stayed seated; he knew that both barrels were filled with onions. For several hundred years the Tower of London was home to a menagerie of wild animals, including a number of lions that later became the basis of a hoax. Dawk's News-Letter for April 2, 1698, announced: "Yesterday being the one April several persons were sent to the Tower of London to watch the annual lion-washing ceremony." This fictitious event continued to attract gullible visitors. Indeed, 158 years later, in 1856, many bought tickets to attend the ceremony. They were unaware of the significance of the date, April 1, or that the lions had been moved to the London Zoo 21 years before.
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