
Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn
Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn
TED Talks Society and Culture · Elizabeth Dunn
April 26, 201914m 15s
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Research shows that helping others makes us happier. But in her groundbreaking work on generosity and joy, social psychologist Elizabeth Dunn found that there's a catch: it matters how we help. Learn how we can make a greater impact -- and boost our own happiness along the way -- if we make one key shift in how we help others. "Let's stop thinking about giving as just this moral obligation and start thinking of it as a source of pleasure," Dunn says.
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