A study confirms what we already know: it's better to give than receive.
Money can buy happiness but only if you spend it on others say researchers.
most people seemed unaware of this hidden key to happiness, the researchers said.
From Science magazine, The Secret to Happiness? Giving.
Dunn says the results "confirmed our hypothesis more strongly than we dared to dream." The effects of altruistic spending are probably akin to those of exercise, she notes, which can have immediate and long-term effects. Giving once might make a person happy for a day, but "if it becomes a way of living, then it could make a lasting difference," she says