{"id":21972,"date":"2015-12-23T20:54:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T19:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/?p=21972"},"modified":"2016-06-10T11:42:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T10:42:16","slug":"money-cant-buy-love-but-it-can-buy-happiness-finds-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/money-cant-buy-love-but-it-can-buy-happiness-finds-study\/","title":{"rendered":"MONEY CAN&#8217;T BUY LOVE BUT IT CAN BUY HAPPINESS, FINDS STUDY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/happy-lady.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16756 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/happy-lady.jpg\" alt=\"happy lady\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/happy-lady.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/happy-lady-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Science believes you can buy happiness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A University of British Columbia study suggests purchasing material goods would make us more happy over a period of time compared to the happiness we get from an experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Daily Mail reports the researchers as saying experiences provide intense feelings that will eventually fade but material things remind a person about the happiness they felt when they first received it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aaron Weidman, one of the researchers explained: &#8220;The decision of whether to buy a material thing or a life experience may therefore boil down to what kind of happiness one desire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Consider a holiday shopper deciding between tickets to a concert or a new couch in the living room.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The concert will provide an intense thrill for one spectacular night but then it will end, and will no longer provide momentary happiness, aside from being a happy memory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In contrast, the new couch will never provide a thrilling moment to match the concert, but will keep the owner snug and comfortable each day throughout the winter months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><i>Phil<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science believes you can buy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[34],"tags":[2794],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27217,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21972\/revisions\/27217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}