STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS
Daniel Gilbert
Alfred A. Knopf, 2006
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
• Understand the cognitive bases and biases that allow us to prevent happiness
• Understand how our ability to imagine alternative futures shifts mental assessments to make one situation happy and another not
• Understand why individuals remember long medical procedures as less painful than short ones
• Understand why people order meals they really don’t want
• Understand why our mental blind spots cause us to live less happy lives than we could.
• Learn how the limitations of our imaginations may be deceive us from knowing what happiness is
Daniel Gilbert is a Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He has won the APA’s Distinguished Scientific Award and has published extensively in cognitive social psychology.
8 CE Credits; 238 pages
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