https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/m-bgl090120.php
News Release 1-Sep-2020
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
The act of giving and receiving increases well-being: the recipient benefits directly from the gift, and the giver benefits indirectly through emotional satisfaction. A new study published in the journal PNAS now suggests that those who share more also live longer. In their analysis, Fanny Kluge and Tobias Vogt found a strong linear relationship between a society's generosity and the average life expectancy of its members. The researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, conclude that people are living longer in societies whose members support each other with resources.
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"What I find particularly interesting is that the relationship between
generosity and lifetime income that we described does not depend on
whether the benefits come from the state or from the wider family," says
Fanny Kluge. Both of these factors cause the population live longer
compared to societies with fewer transfer payments.
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