PPE 3003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Soulmate
2 Jun 2016
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In part, people so firmly believe that money buys happiness due to affective forecasting. According to the article, as people become able to afford life necessities, they will adapt to increasing affluence. People in very happy marriages only have a 57% rate of very happy lives, but of people in marriages that are not too happy, 97% do not have very happy lives. 57% people in very happy marriages say they have very happy lives. 3% of people not in very happy marriages say they have very happy lives. The statistics seem to indicate that happily married people are more likely to live happier lives.
