It's the 10% happier podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. Hello everybody it is of course received wisdom that money cannot buy you love or happiness,

but there's actually some really interesting research that suggests that if you're smart about how you use their money,

it actually can boost your happiness.

Today we're going to talk to a researcher who wrote a whole book on this subject.

Her name is Elizabeth Dunn.

Dr Elizabeth Dunn is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia.

She conducts experimental research

examining how time, money, and tech

shape human happiness.

She's also the co-author of a book called Happy Money,

the Science of Happier Spending

with Dr. Michael Norton as her co-author there

heads up that before we get into Elizabeth's work on money as it relates to

happiness we're gonna start with some more recent work she's done that has looked at some problems in the world of

happiness research more generally. Her work raises some real questions about the

quality of these studies including I hate to say, the studies that look at the relationship between

meditation and happiness.

Before you get too worried, at the end of the discussion I will weigh in with a little bit of

context and reaction from some meditation scientists who I spoke to after the fact.

Anyway, fascinating discussion. I think you're going to love it.

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