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And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn why the phrase money can't buy happiness isn't always true.

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with some help from internet linguist and author Gretchen McCulloch.

Woot! Let's satisfy some curiosity. We all know the cliche, money can't buy happiness. But clearly a certain amount

of money can mean the difference between happiness and misery. In 2010, researchers decided

to find out exactly how much money you would need to buy happiness.

And what they found was pretty interesting.

For their study, researchers Daniel Conamine and Angus Deacon differentiated between two types of happiness.

First, emotional well-being defined by day-to-day emotional experience.

Second, life evaluation, defined as the self-perception of one's life as a whole.

They analyzed 450,000 responses to the Gallup Healthways Well-being Index,

which is a daily survey of U.S. residents conducted by the Gallup Organization.

The survey asked questions about things like how these people were feeling yesterday and

how they see life as a whole.

Emotional experiences included questions like, did you laugh a lot yesterday life

life assessment required people to rank themselves on a ladder where zero

represented the worst life and ten represented the best life they found that when it

comes to emotional well-being, money does buy

happiness, but only to a point. The more money you make, the more your day-to-day happiness

improves, until you hit around $75,000 per year.

After that, the improvement levels off.

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