Spending money on others promotes happiness EW Dunn, LB Aknin, MI Norton Science 319 (5870), 1687-1688, 2008 | 1719 | 2008 |
Prosocial spending and well-being: Cross-cultural evidence for a psychological universal. LB Aknin, CP Barrington-Leigh, EW Dunn, JF Helliwell, J Burns, ... Journal of personality and social psychology 104 (4), 635, 2013 | 679 | 2013 |
Happiness runs in a circular motion: Evidence for a positive feedback loop between prosocial spending and happiness LB Aknin, EW Dunn, MI Norton Journal of Happiness Studies 13 (2), 347-355, 2012 | 355 | 2012 |
Prosocial spending and happiness: Using money to benefit others pays off EW Dunn, LB Aknin, MI Norton Current Directions in Psychological Science 23 (1), 41-47, 2014 | 299 | 2014 |
Giving leads to happiness in young children LB Aknin, JK Hamlin, EW Dunn PLoS one 7 (6), e39211, 2012 | 290 | 2012 |
From wealth to well-being? Money matters, but less than people think LB Aknin, MI Norton, EW Dunn The Journal of positive psychology 4 (6), 523-527, 2009 | 235 | 2009 |
Making a difference matters: Impact unlocks the emotional benefits of prosocial spending LB Aknin, EW Dunn, AV Whillans, AM Grant, MI Norton Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 88, 90-95, 2013 | 183 | 2013 |
Feeling good about giving: The benefits (and costs) of self-interested charitable behavior L Anik, LB Aknin, MI Norton, EW Dunn Harvard Business School Marketing Unit Working Paper, 2009 | 179 | 2009 |
Prosocial behavior leads to happiness in a small-scale rural society. LB Aknin, T Broesch, JK Hamlin, JW Van de Vondervoort Journal of experimental psychology: General 144 (4), 788, 2015 | 151 | 2015 |
It's the recipient that counts: Spending money on strong social ties leads to greater happiness than spending on weak social ties LB Aknin, GM Sandstrom, EW Dunn, MI Norton PLoS one 6 (2), e17018, 2011 | 120 | 2011 |
Income mobility breeds tolerance for income inequality: Cross-national and experimental evidence AF Shariff, D Wiwad, LB Aknin Perspectives on Psychological Science 11 (3), 373-380, 2016 | 108 | 2016 |
Prosocial bonuses increase employee satisfaction and team performance L Anik, LB Aknin, MI Norton, EW Dunn, J Quoidbach PloS one 8 (9), e75509, 2013 | 108 | 2013 |
Does social connection turn good deeds into good feelings?: On the value of putting the ‘social’in prosocial spending LB Aknin, EW Dunn, GM Sandstrom, MI Norton International Journal of Happiness and Development 1 (2), 155-171, 2013 | 101 | 2013 |
Positive feelings reward and promote prosocial behavior LB Aknin, JW Van de Vondervoort, JK Hamlin Current opinion in psychology 20, 55-59, 2018 | 73 | 2018 |
Unpacking the relationships between pro-environmental behavior, life satisfaction, and perceived ecological threat MT Schmitt, LB Aknin, J Axsen, RL Shwom Ecological economics 143, 130-140, 2018 | 71 | 2018 |
On the costs of self-interested economic behavior: How does stinginess get under the skin? EW Dunn, CE Ashton-James, MD Hanson, LB Aknin Journal of Health Psychology 15 (4), 627-633, 2010 | 56 | 2010 |
Give a piece of you: Gifts that reflect givers promote closeness LB Aknin, LJ Human Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 60, 8-16, 2015 | 33 | 2015 |
Social capital and prosocial behaviour as sources of well-being JF Helliwell, LB Aknin, H Shiplett, H Huang, S Wang National Bureau of Economic Research, 2017 | 32 | 2017 |
Expanding the social science of happiness JF Helliwell, LB Aknin Nature human behaviour 2 (4), 248-252, 2018 | 28 | 2018 |
The emotional toll of hell: Cross-national and experimental evidence for the negative well-being effects of hell beliefs AF Shariff, LB Aknin PLoS One 9 (1), e85251, 2014 | 25 | 2014 |