Do you see a strong link between money and happiness? If so… you 
are like most people that researchers at Princeton University researchers found to exaggerate this relationship.
Surprisingly, the Princeton study found that money is less responsible for happiness than most people thought… or predicted. In other words...people with more money simply don’t always spend more time in fun ways than the rest of us. Do you agree?
Princeton researchers, economist Alan B. Krueger and psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, partnered with colleagues from three other universities on the study, which will come out in the June 30 issue of Science.
Participants figured women who earned less than $20,000 yearly to spend 32 percent more time in a bad mood than people who earned over $100,000 yearly.
The study showed that people who earned less than $20,000 a year reported 12 percent more time spent in a bad mood than those who earned over $100,000.
Simply put… the effect of income on mood was much exaggerated by people asked.
Researchers are now collecting data on men as well as women for a national sample to use in further studies. Do you predict that money will make men more or less happy than women? Check back at Brain Based Business for the updates on this one?
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