Science affirms that money is a drug and does not bring happiness.

Several studies show us the psychological consequences of having money.

We like to think that we control money because it seems easy to control, but in reality it is money that controls us. it is money that controls us.

We only have to take a look around us to realize how the world works. Money is capable of making us rethink our own principles and everyone is vulnerable to the influence of corruption. I'm sure you're thinking that this isn't true... OK, everyone but you!

The psychology behind money and greed

But it's not me who says so, but a whole body of research, straddling psychology, economics and sociology, that investigates how we relate to money and what are the psychological consequences of owning large sums of money.

In this sense, a team of scientists from the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón concluded, after a study, that rejecting a bribe produces more stress than accepting it.Does it still seem strange to you that many politicians and businessmen are corrupt? Seen in this light, money is like a drug and, as such, it is addictive.

People change their behavior because of money

People change their behavior if money is involved. A study by the University of North Carolina found that if money was offered to a group of subjects, they were able to increase their scores on a verbal test..

Not only that, but money is capable of making us behave like "fools": for example, by mortgaging us for life or making us buy things that are not useful. But as much as some people insist on believing that money brings happiness, there are several researches that show that once we reach our basic needs, earning more money does not make us happier, earning more money does not make us happier.

Money also changes the way we think

Stephen Lea, a psychology professor at the University of Exeter, thought that the theory that money is just a tool to get what we want is wrong. He asked himself some questions about this: How can it be that money is often the end in itself and not the process to achieve it? Why is money capable of blinding us even against our own well-being? Why are human beings capable of having too much money and not sharing it?

It seems, therefore, that we are not satisfied with having the money we need to make ends meet.The money, as with drugs, must be further increased in dosage. In fact, research has found that the mere thought of earning money activates the same brain regions as these substances.

On the other hand, research from the University of Minnesota showed that money changes the way we think. money changes the way we think. According to the results of their study, just by seeing a photograph in which money appears, our brain acts as if we were going to win a prize. That is, our brain areas related to mathematical memory and attention are activated considerably.

Money can make you a worse person

Surely the vast majority of people think that if one day we win the lottery our problems will be over and we will be the happiest people in the world, even more so when the economy is as it is. But in a report by Manfred Kents de Vries, professor of leadership at the ISEAD Business School, he states that having a full wallet doesn't make you any happier..

Moreover, other studies contrary to those claiming that money increases self-confidence seem to confirm that it makes people less charitable, more unpleasant and harms social relationships.

Now, if you have money or if you become rich someday, you better spend your money on others. A study conducted by Michael Norton, a professor at Harvard Business School, demonstrated that when money is spent on other people, it makes you happier than when you spend it on yourself..