What is the relationship between money and well-being? Research distinguishes between two forms of well-being: people’s feelings during the moments of life (experienced well-being) and people’s evaluation of their lives when they pause and reflect (evaluative well-being). Drawing on 1,725,994 experience-sampling reports from 33,391 employed US adults, the present results show that both experienced and evaluative well-being increased linearly with log(income), with an equally steep slope for higher earners as for lower earners. There was no evidence for an experienced well-being plateau above $75,000/y, contrary to some influential past research. There was also no evidence of an income threshold at which experienced and evaluative well-being diverged, suggesting that higher incomes are associated with both feeling better day-to-day and being more satisfied with life overall.

金钱与幸福的关系是什么？研究区分了两种形式的幸福感：人们在生活中的感受（体验到的幸福感）和人们在暂停和反思时对生活的评价（评估性幸福感）。根据来自 33,391 名在职美国成年人的 1,725,994 份经验抽样报告，目前的结果表明，经验幸福感和评估幸福感均随 log（收入）线性增加，高收入者和低收入者的斜率同样陡峭。与过去一些有影响力的研究相反，没有证据表明经历了高于 75,000 美元/年的幸福感高原。也没有证据表明收入门槛会导致经验和评估幸福感出现差异，