by Daniel Gilbert
Gilbert reveals that humans are remarkably poor at predicting what will make them happy. Our psychological immune system distorts future expectations in systematic, measurable ways.
In this collection, Stumbling on Happiness is cited by 6 other books.
It’s picked up by Negotiation Genius, You Are Not So Smart and Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--and Keep--Love and 3 others.
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Cites Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness research on impact bias when explaining why negotiators systematically misforecast how much winning will satisfy them
Uses Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness research on affective forecasting and the impact bias to explain why we misjudge future emotions
Engages Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness on affective forecasting errors, explaining why anxious and avoidant types systematically mispredict what partners they will be happy with
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Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--and Keep--Loveby Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
Engages Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness on affective forecasting errors, using the same evidence to argue we should stop optimizing for predicted feelings
Kahneman cites Daniel Gilbert (author of Stumbling on Happiness) extensively for the System 2-as-doubter framework. He references Gilbert's essay "How Mental Systems Believe" and the experiment showing that disrupted System 2 makes people unable to "unbelieve" false sentences.
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Daniel Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness is listed in Cialdini's bibliography. Cialdini draws on Gilbert's research on affective forecasting to explain why people consistently misjudge how they will feel about future compliance decisions.
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