bookMetamorphosisJan 1, 2015Closed access

Stumbling on Happiness

DTDaniel T. GilbertTLTeidorlang Lyngdoh

Harvard University Press · Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode

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Abstract

In this fascinating and often hilarious work - winner of the Royal Society of Science Prize 2007 - pre-eminent psychologist Daniel Gilbert shows how - and why - the majority of us have no idea how to make ourselves happy. We all want to be happy, but do we know how? When it comes to improving tomorrow at the expense of today, we're terrible at predicting how to please our future selves. In 'Stumbling on Happiness' Professor Daniel Gilbert combines psychology, neuroscience, economics and philosophy with irrepressible wit to describe how the human brain imagines its future - and how well (or badly) it predicts what it will enjoy. Revealing some of the amazing secrets of human motivation, he also answers…

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  • Happiness
  • Order (exchange)
  • Psychology
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Social psychology
  • Economics
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