Elizabeth Dunn is an associate professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. At age twenty-six, she was featured as one of the “rising stars” across all of academia by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Her work has been featured in top academic journals, including two recent papers in Science, and in hundreds of media outlets worldwide.
Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness--if five core principles of smarter spending are followed. It offers a tour of new research on the science of spending.