Nick Epley at UChicago and Sonya Lyubomirsky at UC-Riverside have done research on how giving causes happiness. One pithy quote is:”Lyubomirsky: The answer is very clear… The research shows that it’s generosity that makes people happier, not selfishness or self-interest.” Here are a few links that popped from a short Google search.
Nick Epley at UChicago and Sonya Lyubomirsky at UC-Riverside have done research on how giving causes happiness. One pithy quote is:”Lyubomirsky: The answer is very clear… The research shows that it’s generosity that makes people happier, not selfishness or self-interest.” Here are a few links that popped from a short Google search.
Epley and Klein 2014 paper based on 11 experiments, The Topography of Generosity
Lyubomirsky interview