
Experiences make you happier than possessions, says science
Here at Healthy Traveler Retreats, we put a fair bit of stock into experiences being more worthwhile purchases than possessions. So when every now and again a school by the name of ‘science’ ambles in and gets our backs, we rejoice. And on this occasion those scientists – Dr. Thomas Gilovich and Amit Kumar would be their names, if they had names, which they do – and their research (recently published in Experimental Social Psychology) contends that if lasting happiness is th