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Other people got a slip of paper that said, "By 5pm today, spend this money on somebody else."

Also inside the envelope was money.

And we manipulated how much money we gave them; some people got this slip of paper and five dollars, some got this slip of paper and 20 dollars.

People gave money to homeless people.

People who spent money on others got happier; people who spent it on themselves, nothing happened.

The other thing we saw is the amount of money doesn't matter much.

We see this again and again when we give people money to spend on others instead of on themselves.

Imagine, instead of just people in Canada, we say, "Name the last time you spent money on yourself or others.

Or in Uganda, "Name the last time you spent money on yourself or others and describe that."

And what we see is sort of amazing, because there's human universals on what you do with your money, and real cultural differences on what you do as well.

Human universal: you spend money on others, you're being nice.

We say, "Name a time you spent money on somebody else."

They had no money, they went to a clinic and I gave her this money."

So it's a very small amount of money, in fact.

So you don't have to do amazing things with your money to make yourself happy.

We wanted to look at every country in the world if we could, to see what the relationship is between money and happiness.

They asked people, "Did you donate money to charity recently?"

Are they positively correlated, giving money makes you happy?

So in almost every country in the world where we have this data, people who give money to charity are happier people than people who don't give money to charity.

So almost everywhere we look, we see that giving money away makes you happier than keeping it for yourself.

We give people on some teams some money "Spend it however you want on yourself," just like we did with the undergrads in Canada.

Then we can see, we've got teams that spend on themselves and these pro-social teams who we give money to make the team better.

The reason I have a ridiculous pinata there is one team pooled their money and bought a pinata, they smashed the pinata, the candy fell out and things like that.

What we see is that the teams that are pro-social sell more stuff than the teams that only got money for themselves.

You don't get money from that; you lose money, since it doesn't motivate them to perform better.

But when you give them 15 euro to spend on their teammates, they do so much better on their teams that you actually get a huge win on investing this kind of money.

Other teams, we give them money to spend on their dodgeball teammates.

The teams that spend money on themselves have the same winning percentages as before.

The teams we give the money to spend on each other become different teams; they dominate the league by the time they're done.

So if you think money can't buy happiness, you're not spending it right.

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