{"id":90,"date":"2020-12-22T17:10:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T17:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.scube.co\/outreach\/?p=90"},"modified":"2020-12-23T16:04:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T16:04:10","slug":"improve-life-satisfaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.scube.co\/outreach\/2020\/12\/22\/improve-life-satisfaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Improve Life Satisfaction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1079183\">German study<\/a>&nbsp;provides ample evidence that people who give more to others \u2013 in both time and resources \u2013 experience greater satisfaction in life than people who do not. In fact, communities of people with high levels of giving tend to demonstrate greater satisfaction within the community than groups of people who do not give generously. Essentially, you\u2019re going to be happier in your community if it\u2019s made up of folks who give to one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n<!--noteaser-->\n\n\n\n<p>A&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17569866\">study<\/a>&nbsp;by a University of Oregon professor and his colleagues demonstrates that charitable contributions create a response in the brain that mimics one activated by drugs and other stimuli. This response elicits a surge of dopamine and endorphins that are experienced as \u201chedonic\u201d and rewarding. Charitable giving can feel pleasurable in the deepest parts of your physiology \u2013 more so than a night on the town or a new outfit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A&nbsp;German study&nbsp;provides ample evidence that people who give more to others \u2013 in both time and resources \u2013 experience greater satisfaction in life than people who do not. In fact, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":99,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.scube.co\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.scube.co\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.scube.co\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.scube.co\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.scube.co\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.scube.co\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/dev.scube.co\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.scube.co\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.scube.co\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.scube.co\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.scube.co\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}