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Giant Brain Candy: Give Time, Get Time. In four experiments, people who spent a little time helping someone else felt they had more time afterwards, even more than people handed a windfall of free time. Source: Giving time and time affluence.
Growing evidenceThe research
  1. Mogilner, C., Chance, Z., & Norton, M. I. (2012). Giving time gives you time. Psychological Science, 23(10), 1233–1238.

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Give Time, Get Time

In four experiments, people who spent a little time helping someone else felt they had more time afterwards, even more than people handed a windfall of free time.

Source: Giving time and time affluence · Growing evidence

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