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Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

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Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert is a popular psychology book that explores why people are often poor judges of what will make them happy in the future. Drawing on research in psychology and neuroscience, Gilbert explains that the human brain frequently mispredicts emotional outcomes because it relies on memory, imagination, and biases rather than accurate foresight. He argues that people tend to overestimate both the impact and duration of future events—whether positive or negative—and that this leads to repeated “errors” in predicting happiness. Through experiments and real-life examples, the book shows how perception, attention, and adaptation shape our emotional lives. Its central idea is that happiness is less predictable than we think, and our mental “simulator” of the future is often flawed.

About the Author

Daniel Gilbert is an American social psychologist and professor at Harvard University. He is known for his research on affective forecasting—the study of how people predict their future emotional states. Gilbert has published widely in academic psychology and is recognized for making complex psychological concepts accessible to general readers. His work, including Stumbling on Happiness, has influenced how people understand decision-making, happiness, and human cognition.

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