Money can't buy happiness? That's just wishful thinking | Ruth Whippman

A new study shows that people with more money tend to be less lonely. We shouldn't be surprised - the link between happiness and wealth is clear

Money can't buy happiness: it's a rarely questioned truism. It also tends to be most enthusiastically embraced by those who have never gone without it. "I've tried hard to care about money," Chelsea Clinton once humble-bragged, "but I couldn't." No matter how attached we are to the idea that money can't buy happiness, though, the research shows almost the complete opposite.

After community and social relationships, the association between income and wellbeing is one of the most robust in the happiness literature. And a new study demonstrates just how deep-seated that psychological link is, how intricately our financial circumstances weave their way into our psyches.