Lottery winners do not want their winnings to change them

Monday, February 28, 2011 - 16:31 in Psychology & Sociology

There are many notions about what happens when someone has won a big prize. We often hear about winners who have spent all their money, incurred debts and become lonely and unhappy. But these are exceptional cases, new research shows. In the vast majority of cases the winners claim to carry on living their normal lives with prudent consumption.

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