拿钱买快乐！

    老师和父母都告诉我们：金钱不是的，很多东西用钱是买不来了的。金钱买不来幸福，金钱买不来健康，金钱也买不来快乐！的确，我们不应该成为新一代“守财奴”！我们要树立正确的价值观——金钱不是的！

    然而，无奇不有，恰恰有个调查研究表明：金钱却是可以买到“快乐”的！但是前提是花在别人的身上。下面我们就一起来看看这个全新的观点：如何用金钱买到快乐！希望大家看完下面的文章之后有所启发。

Money can buy happiness, but only if you spend it on someone else, researchers reported.

 Spending as little as $US5 a day on someone else could significantly boost happiness, the team at the University of British Columbia and Harvard Business School found.

 Their experiments on more than 630 Americans showed they were measurably happier when they spent money on others -- even if they thought spending the money on themselves would make them happier.

 "We wanted to test our theory that how people spend their money is at least as important as how much money they earn," said Elizabeth Dunn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia.

 They asked their 600 volunteers first to rate their general happiness, report their annual income and detail their monthly spending including bills, gifts for themselves, gifts for others and donations to charity.

 "Regardless of how much income each person made, those who spent money on others reported greater happiness, while those who spent more on themselves did not," Dunn said in a statement.

 Dunn's team also surveyed 16 employees at a company in Boston before and after they received an annual profit-sharing bonus of between $US3000 and $US8000.

 "Employees who devoted more of their bonus to pro-social spending experienced greater happiness after receiving the bonus, and the manner in which they spent that bonus was a more important predictor of their happiness than the size of the bonus itself," they wrote in their report, published in the journal Science.

 They gave their volunteers $US5 or $US20 and half got clear instructions on how to spend it. Those who spent the money on someone or something else reported feeling happier about it.

 "These findings suggest that very minor alterations in spending allocations -- as little as $US5 -- may be enough to produce real gains in happiness on a given day," Dunn said.