https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/11/28/lottery-winners-arent-any-happier-than-the-rest-of-us-you-know/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 06:33:14 -0400<![CDATA[What gives? Behavior experts have a couple theories. One is simply that we humans just tend to get used to stuff &#8212; the good and the bad. The psychological concept is called &#8220;happiness adaptation,&#8221; and Michael Norton, associate professor at Harvard Business School, co-authored a 2007 paper that sought to uncover why hitting major life goals &#8212; including the dreamlike goal of winning the lottery and the more down-to-earth goal of getting married &#8212; don&#8217;t end up making us as happy as we expect them to.]]>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:00:28 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/11/28/lottery-winners-arent-any-happier-than-the-rest-of-us-you-know-n97869