Researchers found we’ve been wrong about a key contributor to human happiness | CNN Business

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Money can’t buy happiness, of course. Of course. But it can really, really help.

Here’s the deal: For years, there’s been a popular theory in behavioral science research that people hit a kind of “happiness plateau” around the $75,000 a year threshold (or around $100,000 adjusted for inflation), and above that level, more money isn’t going to make you significantly happier.

But according

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