Shopping Fiesta
True Happiness Rarely Lies at the Bottom of a
Shopping Bag
We all want to be happy. Some of us derive happiness from different places than others, with varying degrees of success. A lot of commercial advertising would have us believe we need newer and better material possessions to be happy. Psychological research however bears little support for that idea. On the contrary, research has shown people who make their happiness and satisfaction contingent upon consumption tend to be less happy and more dissatisfied with life. In this post I’m going to elaborate on the relationship between materialism and unhappiness and I’m also going to discuss why psychologists think materialistic individuals are less happy. After reading you’ll hopefully be enabled to focus on what (according to research) actually does bring happiness, instead of that which promises happiness but often doesn’t deliver.
