If you want to be happy, talk about experiences, not material things. According to a study by Cornell University (USA) presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Social Psychology and Personality, when experiences predominate in the content of our conversations, we relive and even remember them "more fully" and rewarding , in addition to enhancing the social connection with our interlocutors, as explained by Amit Kumar, co-author of the study, based on seven different experiments. On the other hand, narrating the events also increases the satisfaction that experiencing them brought us.
However, the same does not happen when talking about material objects, for example if we say that we have acquired a late-model television or the coolest clothes of the season. This type of conversation, Kumar concludes, does not make us feel good, "which does not rule out that possessions do contribute to our well-being."
