The never ending debate between the psychologists and economists is definitely not nearing its end with various corollaries and offshoots becoming more visible. Can money, after all, buy happiness? The hunt for fat packages, prospective groom’s salary being more important than this potency and Vogue’s lifestyle hitting the Indian scene, could it after all be able to get an ounce of extra happiness out of money? Apparently, yes.

That’s the conclusion of a study appearing in the March 21 issue of Science. It found that spending on others brings people greater satisfaction than buying things for themselves. What’s more? Most people seemed unaware of this hidden key to happiness, the researchers said. “It’s tied to ‘pro-social’ spending,” said Elizabeth Dunn, lead author of the study and assistant professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

So the next time you go out shopping with the longest list of necessities or unnecessaries for yourself, make sure to drop an item or two for your loved ones, it might just work as endorphins! Money can after all release feel-good hormones, all the more reason for the world to go more mercenary but at the same time more giving, quite a paradox, isn’t it?

Via: Yahoo
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