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Abstract People with larger incomes tend to be happier, but when in daily life does that extra happiness actually appear? Based on over 1.8 million real-time observations from 29,138 employed adults from the U.S., this report presents, to my knowledge, the first analysis of how personal income (not household income) is related to happiness measured with experience sampling. The results reveal a…
Abstract People typically think about money in raw units such as dollars. Yet research on money and happiness typically examines the association between happiness and the logarithm of income, or Log(income). This logarithmic association between income and happiness is frequently either overlooked or misunderstood. To help address this, the present report examines this association and makes five…
Abstract Is there a point beyond which more money is no longer associated with greater happiness? In recent research, I found that happiness rose steadily at least up through incomes of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. But what happens beyond that – does happiness plateau, decline, or continue rising? To find out, I compare happiness from a large U.S. sample with diverse incomes (N =…
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