金钱能够买到幸福。

看惯了心灵鸡汤的朋友，大概会使劲揉揉眼睛：没看错吧？博主没写错吧？

没错，重要的事情说三遍：金钱能够、能够、能够买来幸福！

心灵鸡汤文里面，最常说的一句话就是，金钱无法买到幸福。

然而，心理学家们却对这个说法表示怀疑。他们最近的研究表明，如果钱花对了地方，的确有可能买到幸福。

心理学家送给人们一张优惠劵，要求他们花掉。其中部分优惠劵是书店的，另一部分则是酒吧的。我们知道，内向的人更喜欢自己静静地看书，外向的人更喜欢泡吧聊天。

结果表明，如果优惠劵和自己的性格倾向一致，那么花掉之后的幸福感就会增加；如果相反，那么幸福感就没有变化或者下降。

于是，心理学家得出结论说：如果把钱花在符合你人格兴趣的地方，钱确实能买来幸福。

不过，他们还忽略了一点：你首先必须舍得把钱花出去。

所以，经过修正，我们从这份研究中得到的启示就是：

金钱的确能买来幸福，但要满足以下两个条件：

第一，你要舍得把钱花出去，而不是藏在银行里或者床底下；

第二，你要把钱用在和你人格、兴趣、志向等等特质一致的地方。

以下是原文的摘要：

Money Buys Happiness When Spending Fits Our Personality

Sandra C. Matz, Joe J. Gladstone, and David Stillwell

It is sometimes said that you can't buy happiness, and research seems to support this. Studies find a weak association between money and well-being; however, researchers have been questioning this conclusion. In this study, the authors examine whether spending money might increase people's happiness if the purchases fit their individual preferences and personality. In the second of two studies, extraverted and introverted participants were given a voucher to a bookstore (introverted proxy) or a bar (extraverted proxy) and were asked to spend it. Participants completed measures of positive and negative affect before, during, and after using the voucher. Participants' happiness was above baseline when the voucher matched their personality and remained stable or decreased when the voucher did not match. This suggests that spending on the personality-matched items might indeed increase happiness.