Stumbling on Happiness
ISBN: 9781400077427 | 1400077427
Edition: 1stFormat: Trade Paper
Publisher: Vintage
Pub. Date: 3/20/2007
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Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in the sink? Why will sighted people pay more to avoid going blind than blind people will pay to regain their sight? Why do dining companions insist on ordering different meals instead of getting what they really want? Why do pigeons seem to have such excellent aim; why can't we remember one song while listening to another; and why does the line at the grocery store always slow down the moment we join it? In this brilliant, witty, and accessible book, renowned Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert describes the foibles of imagination and illusions of foresight that cause each of us to misconceive our tomorrows and misestimate our satisfactions. Vividly bringing to life the latest scientific research in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, and behavioral economics, Gilbert reveals what scientists have discovered about the uniquely human ability to imagine the future, and about our capacity to predict how much we will like it when we get there. With penetrating insight and sparkling prose, Gilbert explains why we seem to know so little about the hearts and minds of the people we are about to become.
| Prospection | p. 1 |
| Journey to elsewhen | p. 3 |
| Subjectivity | p. 27 |
| The view from in here | p. 29 |
| Outside looking in | p. 55 |
| Realism | p. 73 |
| In the blind spot of the mind's eye | p. 75 |
| The hound of silence | p. 96 |
| Time bombs | p. 127 |
| Presentism | p. 109 |
| Paradise glossed | p. 151 |
| Imm... MORE | p. 172 |
| Corrigibility | p. 193 |
| Once bitten | p. 195 |
| Reporting live from tomorrow | p. 2 |
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Daniel Gilbert is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He has won numerous awards for his teaching and research, and his scientific research has been covered by The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, Money, CNN, U.S. News & World Report, The New Yorker, Scientific American, Science, O: The Oprah Magazine, Psychology Today and others. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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