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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, …
Gilbert's 2006 book, Stumbling on Happiness was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into more than 40 languages. It won the 2007 Royal Society Prizes for Science Books and was included as one of fifty key books in psychology in 50 Psychology Classics (2006) by Tom Butler-Bowdon.
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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The Art of Happiness (Riverhead, 1998, ISBN 1-57322-111-2) is a book by the 14th Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, a psychiatrist who posed questions to the Dalai Lama. Cutler quotes the Dalai Lama at length, providing context and describing some details of the settings in which the interviews took place, as well as adding his own reflections on issues raised.
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.
[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 ...