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Having Money Increases ‘Mean’ Behavior
Paul Piff, a professor at University of California, Irvine, studies how money influences humans' relationships with one another. His striking conclusion ...
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Happiness with Regret
A New York Timesarticle entitled “Can Money Buy Happiness?” notes the wealthy often struggle to balance the benefit and the burden of affluence. ...
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Study Finds the Rich Are Still Not Satisfied
In 2018, Harvard Business School undertook a first-of-it's-kind study of over 4000 millionaires in the United States asking them about how much money ...
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Tidying Wave Boon to Local Thrift Shops
Lifestyle consultant Marie Kondo has become a bona fide sensation. Through her 2011 bestseller The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, and her recently ...
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We Are All Accumulating Mountains of Things
An article in The Atlantic titled, "We Are All Accumulating Mountains of Things" noted "how online shopping and cheap prices are turning ...
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Evidence Shows Money isn't the Key to Happiness
The 2015 American Freshman Survey asked thousands of incoming students about their goals and aspirations. The highest proportion (81.9 percent) checked ...
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Wealthy Man Would Trade it all for Health
Jerry Oppenheimer's book, Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty recounts the story of the family made unimaginably ...
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We All Want Just 10 Percent More Income
How much would it take for us to have enough money? Remarkably, studies show that most people, regardless of income, answer the question the same way: ...
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Americans' Stuff and Junk Obsession
Alison Stewart, a former reporter and news anchor, spent three years investigating America's unhealthy obsession with stuff. Her book, Junk: Digging Through ...
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Woman Receives 1000 Percent Tip
A suburban Chicago woman was left stunned over the summer when one of her patrons left a combined tip of over 1,000%. Nicole Thompson, a teacher who worked ...
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