How to Buy Happiness (Listening)

1) What is the main topic of the lecture?

A) Reasons that people with money are unhappy.
B) Ways to use money to make yourself happier.
C) The psychological effects of money and spending habits.
D) The social influence of money.


2) Which of the following is NOT a common problem for people who win the lottery?

A) They are overly generous and become depressed because they have nothing left for themselves.
B) Their relationships suffer because their friends and family make financial requests.
C) Winners often become less social and more selfish.
D) They overspend and become trapped in debt.


3) Which of the following is true of the Vancouver study? (choose two options)

A) Coffee was frequently a prosocial and a personal spending choice.
B) The amount of money used significantly affected the participants happiness.
C) People who participated in personal spending were happier at the end of the day than those who spent prosocially.
D) The participants were not good global representatives due to their social standing and wealth.


4) What was a significant discovery the researchers made when studying differences and similarities across cultures?

A) Canadian people often buy small gifts for others while Ugandans buy lifesaving medicine.
B) The specific way the money is spent has an important effect on the amount of happiness felt by the gift giver.
C) Men often buy things for women selflessly.
D) Giving charity is almost universally well correlated to happiness.


5) At 07:36, why does the speaker say, "What about your work life, which is where we spend all the rest of our time when we're not with the people we know?"

A) He wants some suggestions from the audience.
B) He believes that people most people don't know their colleagues well.
C) He wants to introduce the next main point of his lecture.
D) He is going to offer advice about how to spend money on strangers.


6) Why did the speaker discuss dodgeball teams?

A) He received a lot of criticism for not including them in his original study.
B) He wanted to show that his conclusions are valid for many different contexts.
C) He wants to demonstrate that spending money on personal hobbies can have benefits.
D) He believes that sales teams and dodgeball teams are quite similar.