{"id":25890,"date":"2017-11-08T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/?p=25890"},"modified":"2025-10-21T08:40:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:40:59","slug":"does-giving-make-you-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/2017\/11\/08\/does-giving-make-you-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Giving Make You Happier? Or Do Happier People Give?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Utah State University, College of Science, Fall 2017<\/strong>.   In a nutshell, giving to charity makes us happier; especially when we freely choose to give. Whether we have a little or lot of money, how we choose to spend it matters most to our happiness.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usu.edu\/science\/discovery\/fall-2017-stories\/does-giving-make-you-happy\" 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>Utah State University, College of Science, Fall 2017. In a nutshell, giving to charity makes us happier; especially when 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-25890","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\/25890","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=25890"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123144,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25890\/revisions\/123144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}