“To what extent is money important to you?” and found that was much more important than money itself: money has a much bigger effect on happiness if you *think* money is important (a
Or perhaps, you think money is important if it has a bigger effect on your happiness (based on e.g. environmental factors and genetic predispostion)? In other words, maybe these people are making correct predictions about how they work, rather than creating self-fulfilling prophecies? It is at least worth considering that the causality goes this way.
AND it found people who equate success with money are less happy.
This of course is slight evidence that the causality goes in the direction you said.
Or perhaps, you think money is important if it has a bigger effect on your happiness (based on e.g. environmental factors and genetic predispostion)? In other words, maybe these people are making correct predictions about how they work, rather than creating self-fulfilling prophecies? It is at least worth considering that the causality goes this way.
This of course is slight evidence that the causality goes in the direction you said.