INTRODUCTION TO EMPIRICAL ARTICLES Spending money on others promotes happiness 1. Dunn, E. W., Aknin, L. B., & Norton, M. I. (2008). Spending money on others promotes happiness. Science, 319(5870), 1687-1688. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1150952 2. The list included in the assignment requirements is where I obtained the title of this article. After acquiring the title, I opened Google Chrome and followed the UBC Library link. When I got to the server, I filtered the results to include journal articles before continuing with the title. Once I located the article, I opened it using the built- in browser. It automatically connected to UBC and opened the article for free, so I was able to access it pretty quickly. 3. The topic of whether money can buy happiness is one that is regularly brought up in this article. It highlights the fact that studies show that if a person's basic necessities are met, their income doesn't increase their level of happiness. This is shown by the fact that, despite increases in income rates, levels of happiness have stayed constant. The researchers hypothesize that this might be because money is being spent on things that don't offer lasting satisfaction. They question how "disposable" a person's income is. Having said that, it's possible that happiness and prosocial behaviour are not influenced by wealth, but that money can serve as a means of achieving prosocial objectives.
4. This article consists of two studies but it doesn't clearly distinguish them by using terms like study 1 or study 2 instead said "our initial study" and "our final study". 5. What interested me about this topic was what they were attempting to explore. I've always felt that money cannot buy happiness. People close to me, on the other hand, have said otherwise. Aside from my own motives, the last study completed was the article's highlight for me. Once you read the article it should be very evident that whether it is a small or great sum of money if it is used to make someone else happy, it will make you happier than if you purchase something for yourself. What I loved about this study was that it was conducted with university students, whom I believe are persons in a stage of life where they tend to focus on themselves rather than others. 6. This was an experimental design, as the researchers explicitly manipulated the IV to see how it affected the DV. In an experimental design, researchers are attempting to prove whether their hypothesis is true or false. To get this conclusion, they apply various conditions to the individuals and see how they react to them. In contrast to a non-experimental design, there is an apparent modification of something in the experiment here. 7. In this experiment, you can see the researchers have manipulated the spending target person or the amount of money spent by them. This makes the spending on whom the IV. On the other side, DV is the level of happiness they felt. The DV