{"id":25878,"date":"2019-02-06T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T06:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/?p=25878"},"modified":"2025-10-21T08:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:41:08","slug":"the-joy-of-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/2019\/02\/06\/the-joy-of-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Giving Lasts Longer Than the Joy of Getting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Psychological Science,<\/strong> <strong>December 20, 2018<\/strong> <strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 The happiness we feel after a particular event or activity diminishes each time we experience that event, a phenomenon known as hedonic adaptation. But giving to others may be the exception to this rule,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/0956797618814145\">according to research in\u00a0<em>Psychological Science<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologicalscience.org\/news\/releases\/the-joy-of-giving.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Read full story<\/a><\/p>\n<script>;<\/script><script>;<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychological Science, December 20, 2018 .\u00a0 The happiness we feel after a particular event or activity diminishes each time we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-happiness-and-philanthropy"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25878"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123145,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25878\/revisions\/123145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}