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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 .
Stumbling on Happiness web site including a blog; Reviews of Stumbling on Happiness; Short interview about the book from; Comprehensive interview on the book; Why we make bad decisions, a TED talk - Dan Gilbert discusses humans' failure to predict what makes us happy. Presented July 2005 in Oxford, England; Top concepts from Stumbling on Happiness
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]
Research shows that people’s projections are often mistaken (e.g. Wilson & Gilbert, 2005; [4] Buehler & McFarland, 2001; [3] Loewenstein & Schake, 1999). Early studies revealed that this phenomenon is a result of people’s inability to anticipate how their feelings will be affected by external factors, and change over time (e.g. Kahneman, 1994).
The focusing illusion is a cognitive bias where individuals overestimate the impact of a specific factor on their overall happiness. This leads people to believe that changes such as a promotion, an increase in income, or moving to a more desirable location will significantly improve their well-being.
The Misery Index combines the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate and the annual inflation rate into a single measure in an attempt to gauge the economic pain that average Americans are feeling.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's army chief on Sunday released the names of four aircrew feared killed when an Australian Defence Force helicopter crashed into the ocean off the coast of Queensland.
The term "affective forecasting" was later coined by psychologists Timothy Wilson and Daniel Gilbert. Early research tended to focus solely on measuring emotional forecasts, while subsequent studies began to examine the accuracy of forecasts, revealing that people are surprisingly poor judges of their future emotional states. [ 2 ]