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The Guardian: “Gilbert's book is a witty, racy and readable study of expectation, anticipation, memory and perception: all bits of scaffolding within the structure of happiness.” [7] The Publishers Weekly: “a scientific explanation of the limitations of the human imagination and how it steers us wrong in our search for happiness, …
Daniel Todd Gilbert (born November 5, 1957) is an American social psychologist and writer. He is the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and is known for his research with Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia on affective forecasting.
Skipping Towards Gomorrah was selected for inclusion in The Best American Sex Writing 2004, [1] and won a 2003 Lambda Literary Award in the humor category. [2] [3] [4] A review of the book in Publishers Weekly was positive and the review concluded, "On the whole, however, Savage hits the mark and gives advocates of personal and sexual liberty the hippest, sassiest voice they've had in a long ...
The How of Happiness was published in 2008 by Penguin Press. [6] The book has been translated into 22 languages. [4]The premise of The How of Happiness is that 50 percent of a given human's long-term happiness level is genetically determined, [7] 10 percent is affected by life circumstances and situation, and a remaining 40 percent of happiness is subject to self control.
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Coined by Harvard professor of psychology and author of "Stumbling on Happiness", Daniel Gilbert, synthetic happiness is the happiness we make for ourselves. In his TedTalk titled, the surprising science of happiness, Gilbert explains that everyone possesses a "psychological immune system" that helps to regulate our emotional reactions. [ 104 ]
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[6] Empirical studies show that fear of happiness is associated with fragility of happiness beliefs, suggesting that one of the causes of aversion to happiness may be the belief that happiness is unstable and fragile. [7] Research shows that fear of happiness is associated with avoidant and anxious attachment styles. [8] A study found that ...