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thoughts about time’s monetary value inhibit pleasure

Research subjects who had been asked to calculate their recent hourly wages were less happy (scoring an average of 63 on a scale of 100) while listening to “The Flower Duet” from the opera Lakme, by Leo Delibes, than those who hadn’t been prompted to think about their wages (70 on the same scale), say Sanford E. DeVoe and Julian House of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. Thinking about time in terms of money impairs people’s ability to derive happiness from pleasurable experiences, the researchers say.