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What Works Well (blog)
Will that Lamborghini make me happy?

To help John and the journalist, we asked our World Wellbeing Panel to comment on the wellbeing arising from luxury goods. With aspirations of one day owning that Lamborghini, we expected our panel of economists to agree... Read more...

07 August 2019

Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Win silver, or lose gold? Why second is the worst place

A team of researchers at London's Centre for Economic Performance employed 800 volunteers to analyse athletes' faces as they stood on the medal podiums during the London Games, in order to assess their... Read more...

10 April 2018

Chapelboro.com
Catch criminals with Pokemon go

Silver is Better than Bronze Obviously, an Olympian wants to go for the gold. But, if you don't win the gold, you will probably be happier to win the bronze instead of a silver medal. That's according to the Centr... Read more...

18 July 2016

The Mail Online
Why silver is worse than bronze: Study shows Olympians who come second are more upset than those just happy to get on the podium

Olympians who won the silver medal are less happy than their counterparts who achieved bronze according to the results of a new study of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. Researchers behind the study argue tha... Read more...

17 July 2016