Pods Fight Poverty: Why Giving Money to Others Makes us Happier | from The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pods助力扶贫:为何给予他人金钱能让我们更快乐 | 来自劳里·桑托斯博士的幸福实验室

How to Be a Better Human

2025-12-05

49 分钟
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Money can buy you happiness – but not in the way we think. Giving money away – especially to help others – has been shown make us happier than spending on ourselves. Social psychologist Lara Aknin explains the best ways to spend on loved ones, friends and even total strangers to get the biggest happiness bang for your buck. And Harvard’s Josh Greene reveals how much money Happiness Lab listeners gave to charity via Giving Multiplier last year – and how many lives you saved. Pods Fight Poverty: https://GiveDirectly.org/betterhuman For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • As you know, we usually come to you on Mondays with a new episode,

  • but we've got something special for you this week.

  • We are joining with The Happiness Lab and dozens of other shows for Pod's Fight Poverty.

  • This is a campaign to raise $1 million to lift three villages in Rwanda out of extreme poverty.

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  • Laurie Santos.

  • So today we're going to share an episode from Laurie with you.

  • Laurie is the host of the Happiness Lab.