They say money can't buy you happiness, but new research published in the journal Science suggests that it can, if you spend it on someone else. “Simply making very small changes in how you spend money can make a difference for happiness," said Elizabeth Dunn, an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia, who led the research along with Michael l. Norton, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. Studies of happiness have long found that, unless people are extremely poor, getting more money brings surprisingly small gains in positive feelings. The researchers suspected that perhaps the reason people, weren’t happier was not because of the money itself, but rather because of what they did with their money-mainly, spending it on possessions for themselves.