The release date for the English version of 'Stumbling on Happiness' by
Daniel Todd Gilbert is Mar 2007. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
• Why do lovers overlook dishwashing in the sink yet forgive infidelity in their relationships more quickly?
• Why do sighted individuals spend more to stay seeing than do blind people to become sighted again?
• When eating with someone, why do they always insist on having alternative meals instead of what they genuinely want?
• Why does the grocery store line usually start to move slower as soon as we get in line? Why do pigeons appear to have such great aim? Why can't we recall one song while listening to another?
Renowned Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert explains in this insightful, humorous, and approachable book the fallacies of imagination and illusions of foresight that lead each of us to misinterpret our futures and underestimate our level of contentment. Gilbert vividly illustrates the most recent findings in behavioral economics, cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. These findings shed light on the peculiarities of the human imagination and our ability to forecast our level of satisfaction with the future. Gilbert explains why we appear to know so little about the thoughts and feelings of the people we are going to become with incisive insight and dazzling writing.