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The better you are at math, the more money seems to influence your satisfaction

  • Written by Pär Bjälkebring, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Gothenburg
imageBeing better at math increases income but also ties satisfaction more closely to money. Jonathan Kitchen/Digital Vision via Getty Images

Your grade school math teacher probably told you that being good at math would be very important to your grownup self. But maybe the younger you didn’t believe that at the time. A lot of research, though,...

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