Count Money and Make Yourself Happier

Cited: Time

Did you ever see Donald Trump stand in line for anything after he got rich?  I do not think so.  Money makes you happier.  It allows you to buy the luxurious things in life like sports cars and mansion homes and necessities like groceries and clothes.  It also get to that preferential treatment that Donald Trump gets.  There is actually psychological benefits to just counting money!  Psychological Science, published a new study that says thumbing through your cash can reduce emotional and physical pain as well as increase feelings of internal strength, fearlessness and confidence.  Of course, the flipside to that is when people are reminded of their spending they also report higher levels of both psychological and physical distress.

Focusing on the symbolic power of money, the study’s authors, Xinyue Zhou of Sun Yat-Sen University, Kathleen Vohs of the University of Minnesota and Roy Baumeister of Florida State University, started with a simple hypothesis: reminders of money can alter how people experience social interactions—especially social acceptance and rejection.

To test their idea, the researchers took the following approach: 84 students at a Chinese University, were divided into two groups. One group counted 80 large denomination bills; the other group parceled out 80 pieces of plain paper. All participants then played an online video game where, using game controls, they could throw a video ball and play catch with other internet players. But the game was rigged so that after 10 throws half the students would no longer get the ball thrown to them, while the rest of the students continued to play catch. When the game ended participants who’d been excluded from the second round of catch rated their level of social distress and how strong they felt. Those who had counted money before being socially excluded reported lower levels of social distress than those who had counted only paper. Additionally, the participants who had counted money also reported greater feelings of inner strength and self-sufficiency.

To see if counting money also reduces physical pain— previous research indicates psychological and physical pain are experienced in a similar way —the researchers repeated the earlier social exclusion test, except this time they replaced the ball game with a pain-sensitivity task, in which half the participants were put in a moderate-pain condition (their hands were immersed in warm water) while the other half were subjected to a high-pain condition (hands were immersed in very hot water). Again, those who had counted money reported lower levels of pain.

To complete their study, the researchers conducted additional experiments. Their other findings: Reminders of having spent money aggravated feelings of social distress; and both social rejection and ideas of physical discomfort fueled participants’ desire for money as well as made them less generous.

So what does any of this mean for people in the real-world—especially in this down and out economy? One implication, not entirely surprising, is that a job loss may pose an additional challenge. A layoff is a kind of rejection and that could increase a person’s desire for money at the very same time he or she has less than before, explains Kathleen Vohs, co-designer of the study. Put another way: “The recession can make [people] crave what they can’t have,” Vohs says.

Fortunately, the research also offers a possible solution for landing a new job. “It might be handy to sit down and count a stack of money before going out to the job interview,” says Roy Baumeister, one of the study’s authors. Another option? “Set up a screen saver that shows money,” says Vohs. “That might help ameliorate some of those feelings of being rejected.”

Believe it or not, counting money may help you find that special person even though money cannot buy love. “Maybe young men who are going out to bars to try to meet women should count money,” muses Baumeister. “I gather they have to approach a lot and get rejected a lot. I am not a specialist in bars but it would make the men feel strong and probably make them less bothered about being rejected over and over.”

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My Take: In the human society today, everything revolves around money including emotional and physical health.  There is no way to get around it, if you have money you definitely feel better about everything.  As for just counting it making you feel better, I would have to hear more about that.  I wouldn’t feel better counting somebody else’s money, I would just want it.

I would imagine that the Alexander Technique New York would make me feel better than counting money.  At least the Alexander Technique benefits would be more apparent in my physical condition.  The same goes with Pilates exercise, it would do me better to exercise than to count money.  Of course, you do need money to buy Pilates workout equipment.

Maybe the next study they do should incorporate people who work in a bank and count money every day and compare that to people who work in jobs where they do not handle money.  They just might get more people to believe that counting money makes you happy.  Of course, if you count your own money, you are definitely going to be happier, she don’t have that much.

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