首页
登录
职称英语
It’s official: Money can’t buy happiness. Sure, if a person is handed $1
It’s official: Money can’t buy happiness. Sure, if a person is handed $1
游客
2024-02-19
5
管理
问题
It’s official: Money can’t buy happiness.
Sure, if a person is handed $10, the pleasure centres of his brain light up as if he were given food, sex, or drugs. But that initial rush does not translate into long-term pleasure for most people. Surveys have found virtually the same level of happiness between the very rich individuals on the Forbs 400 and the Maasai herdsmen of East Africa. Lottery winners return to their previous level of happiness after five years. Increases in income just don’t seem to make people happier--and most negative life experiences likewise have only a small impact on long-term satisfaction.
"The relationship between money and happiness is pretty darned (非常) small," says Peter Ubel, a professor of medicine at the University of Michigan.
That’s not to say that increased income doesn’t matter at all. There is a very small correlation between wealth and happiness-accounting for about one percent of the happiness reported by people answering the surveys. And for some groups, that relationship may be considerably bigger. People who are poor seem to get much happier when their monetary prospects improve; so do the very sick. In these cases, Ubel speculates, people may be protected from negative circumstances by the extra cash. Another possibility is that the money brings an increase in status, which may have a greater impact on happiness.
Why doesn’t wealth bring a constant sense of joy? "Part of the mason is that people aren’t very good at figuring out what to do with the money," says George Loewenstein, an economist at Carnegie Mellon University. People generally overestimate the amount of long-term pleasure they’ll get from a given object.
Sometimes, Loewenstein notes, the way people spend their money can actually make them less happy. For example, people derive a great deal of pleasure from interacting with others. If the first thing lottery winners do is to quit their job and to move to a palatial (富丽堂皇的) but isolated estate where they don’t see any neighbours, they could find themselves isolated and depressed. [br] According to Ubel,______.
选项
A、money has much to do with happiness
B、increases in money may make people happy
C、money doesn’t matter at all
D、money has no effect on happiness
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3464632.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]Manyofusbelievethataperson’smindbecomeslessactivea
[originaltext]Manyofusbelievethataperson’smindbecomeslessactivea
[originaltext]Manyofusbelievethataperson’smindbecomeslessactivea
It’sofficialthatmarriedpeoplearehealthier,oratleasttheythinkthey
It’sofficialthatmarriedpeoplearehealthier,oratleasttheythinkthey
It’sofficialthatmarriedpeoplearehealthier,oratleasttheythinkthey
It’sofficialthatmarriedpeoplearehealthier,oratleasttheythinkthey
Heisaveryeasy-goingperson,______(从结识新交中得到许多乐趣).whoderivesalotofpleas
Individualswillbe______fortheirownpersonaldevelopmentplanswhichwillb
Theoldaredrinking______milkperpersontodayastheydidadecadeago.A、asfi
随机试题
SpeakerA:I’dliketocashthistraveler’scheck,please?SpeakerB:________A、
关于后评价类型的说法,正确的有( )。A:中间评价是指对建设项目中某一单项影响的
下列选项中,属于行政优益权的是( )。A、行政立法权 B、行政命令权 C、行
下列质量元素中,最能反映三维地理信息模型产品质量的是( )。A.位置精度 B
10666
下列关于消防用电设备供配电系统的说法,不正确的是()。A.建筑物内设变电所时,
甲从王某处借得一辆价值10万元的竞赛用自行车,因急需用钱,甲将该车质押给典当行,
谈话法特别有助于激发学生的____,调动学生学习的积极性,培养他们____和__
心理咨询师在摄入性会谈中,应该使用的话语方式是()。多选A.提问 B.引
患者男,60岁,口内检查缺失,对颌为天然牙,无,设计义齿为混合支持式可摘局部义齿
最新回复
(
0
)