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Can money buy happiness? Yes, exclaim the authors of a new 【M1】______<br>study—but only up to a point.<br>Psychology has shown that rich people generally rank the<br>overall quality of their lives more favourable than poor people do. At 【M2】______<br>the same time, their actual happy seems to be motivated less by their 【M3】______<br>ability to buy more than by being able to keep up with those with<br>comparable resources in their own age group.<br>"Our findings point to the possibility that, rather than<br>promoting overall happiness, continued income growing could 【M4】______<br>promote an ongoing consumption race where individuals have to<br>consume more and more, just to maintain a constant level of<br>happiness," writes Glenn Firebaugh of Pennsylvania State<br>University.<br>The study was presented at the American Sociological<br>Association's 100th Annual Meeting.<br>What the rich are happier as a whole than their less well-to-do 【M5】______<br>counterparts is becoming an increasingly hot topic for debate. In<br>recent years, many has been written regarding the "science of 【M6】______<br>happiness".<br>Richer people are happier because money can purchase goods<br>and services and it is the consumption of these materials increases 【M7】______<br>one's enjoyment of life and one' s sense of well-being.<br>As incomes in the U.S. tend to be rise over the course of our 【M8】______<br>lifetimes, individuals may find themselves on a sort of treadmill,<br>consuming more and more just to maintain a constant level of<br>happiness, they write.<br>Firebaugh and his colleagues measured the age, total family<br>income, and general happiness of individuals aged 20 to 64,<br>generally considered the working life span for most Americans.<br>Regardless of such criteria as physical health, education, and<br>marital status, people's happiness was effected by what others 【M9】______<br>earned. The higher is the income of others in one's age group, the 【M10】______<br>lower one's happiness.<br>【M1】


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