Stumbling on Happiness

By Daniel Gilbert, Teidorlang Lyngdoh. 2015

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Affective neuroscience of pleasure: reward in humans and animals (2008, background): “Perhaps surprisingly, the act of engaging in conscious introspection about pleasure does not always improve the quality of its capture (Dijksterhuis et al. 2006; Gilbert 2006; Schooler and Mauss 2008).”
How Happiness Affects Choice (2011, unknown): “Other researchers suggest that happiness is highly subjective, meaning distinct things to each individual (Gilbert 2006).”
The Social Perspective Taking Process: What Motivates Individuals to Take Another's Perspective? (2012, background): “However, they do not address self-reports of more cognitively accessible phenomena such as feelings of happiness where self-reports are likely to provide the best measures of any currently available tool (Gilbert, 2006).”
The Evolutionary Foundations of Preferences (2011, background): “introductions and Gilbert [59] for a popular account.”
World happiness report (2012, unknown): “Gilbert (2006), p. 66.”
Children and Life Satisfaction (2010, unknown): “The popular work of Gilbert (2006), finally, also makes the point that having children does not make us happier persons.”
Emotion and decision making. (2015, background): “In short, although it cannot be said that time heals all wounds, research in psychology has revealed that humans revert back to baseline states over time, an effect we typically underestimate (Gilbert 2006, Loewenstein 2000).”