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Thoughts about time inspire people to socialize
http://www.physorg.com/news205682244.html
October 7, 2010
Does thinking about time or money make you happier? A new study
published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for
Psychological Science, finds that people who are made to think about
time plan to spend more of their time with the people in their lives
while people who think about money fill their schedules with work,
work, and -- you guessed it -- more work.
To find out how thinking about time or money makes people feel, Cassie
Mogilner of the University of Pennsylvania designed an experiment,
carried out online with adults from all over the United States, in
which they concentrated on money or time. In this experiment,
volunteers were asked to unscramble a series of sentences. Some
participants were presented with sentences containing words related to
time (e.g., "clock" and "day"), whereas others' sentences contained
words related to money (e.g., "wealth" and "dollar"). Next all
participants were asked how they planned to spend their next 24 hours.
The ones who had been primed to think about time planned to spend more
time socializing. People who'd been primed to think about money
planned to spend more time working.
She also carried out the experiment on low-income people and found
that having them think about time had the same effect, but having them
think about money did not. This may mean that low-income people
already live concerned about and, therefore, highly focused on money,
Mogilner speculates.
But Mogilner wanted to test the effect in the real world, seeing how
people actually spent their time. So her research team approached
people going into a café on campus to ask them to take part in a
questionnaire, which included the word-scrambling task that primed
them with thoughts of time or money. These individuals were then
watched to see how they spent their time in the café—whether they
chatted with people there or on a cell phone, or whether they worked.
When they left the café, they filled out a second questionnaire about
how happy and satisfied they felt. The results were similar: People
who were primed to think about time spent more time socializing and
were happier, while people who were primed with money spent more time
with their noses buried in books and were less happy when they
emerged.
Although focusing on money motivates people to work more, passing the
hours working does not generally make one happy. Spending time with
loved ones does, and thinking about time might motivate people to
pursue these social connections. "There is so much discussion and
focus on money, optimal ways to spend and save it, and the
relationship between money and happiness," says Mogilner. "We're often
ignoring the ultimately more important resource, which is time." She
does not suggest that people stop working altogether, but she does say
that people need to be reminded to make time for friends and family.
Provided by Association for Psychological Science
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