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[Adventurer]

Last Updated: Thursday, 20 March 2008, 22:57 GMT


Charity 'makes you feel better'

Best not to keep it all
It is not having lots of money that makes us happy - it is spending it on others, Canadian researchers suggest.
A team from the University of British Columbia said spending as little as $5 (�2.52) on others helped.

Staff who got bonuses and spent some of the extra money on others were happier than those who spent their bonuses on themselves, the research found.

A UK psychologist said such charitable giving improved how people saw themselves - and how others saw them.

Route to happiness?

The research was published in the 21 March edition of the publication Science.

Spending money on others might represent a more effective route to happiness than spending money on oneself

Professor Elizabeth Dunn, University of Columbia

The researchers first carried out a survey of 630 people which asked them to rate their general happiness, report their annual income; and provide a breakdown of their monthly spending including bills, gifts for themselves, gifts for others and donations to charity.

MITE

[igotthisguitar]

[caniff]

Do you need my bank account wiring info?

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[Adventurer]

Being charitable doesn't always have to be with money, it can be with food, it can be with your time, it could come in the form of helping a stranger who is lost find his or her way. I felt good recently helping a professor from Busan find his way around the Seoul metro, tube, underground, subway.

[igotthisguitar]

Don't forget generous speech, either.

This is indeed truly key.

Metta.