Happiness levels off past a certain income only for the least happy; among happier people it keeps rising with income, fastest for the happiest

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happiness What makes a life go well: whether it is meaning, love, virtue, enough money, or simply expecting less.

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What Daniel Kahneman actually said

Daniel Kahneman 1 Mar 2023 Psychologist and Nobel laureate (1934 to 2024)

A reanalysis of Killingsworth’s experienced sampling data confirmed the flattening pattern only for the least happy people. Happiness increases steadily with log(income) among happier people, and even accelerates in the happiest group.

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↗Income and emotional well-being: A conflict resolved (with Matthew Killingsworth and Barbara Mellers)pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

1 Mar 2023

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