Friday Five: Money Can Buy You Happiness If You're This Type of Person

The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend.

Listen to this episode here. It features interviews with Dr. Christopher Martens, director of the Delaware Center for Cogntive Aging Research and professor of kinesiology and applied physiology at the University of Delaware, and Dr. Ilona Matysiak, visiting scholar at Iowa State University and associate professor of sociology at Maria Grzegorzewska University.

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- Why you should care about smart senior towns

- Here's how to reverse being drunk

- Money can make you happy - if you're this type of person

- Personalized anxiety medicine

The Friday Five features interviews with leading medical and scientific experts about the latest developments in health innovation and the big ethical and social questions they raise. This episode features a discussion originally recorded for MSoS.