Stumbling on Happiness

By Geoffrey W. Sutton. 2008

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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Troubles with Bayesianism: An introduction to the psychological immune system (2018, background): “But these explanations would not work for the Bayesian in the case at hand, for it is only the people who accept that the evidence is legitimate that end up increasing their belief; in the reviewer's example, the evidence is rejected. immune system (Gilbert, 2006).”
If money does not make you happy, consider time (2011, background): “, 1997), which is disconcerting in light of research showing that small pleasures (like a cold beer on a warm day) constitute some of life's most salient instances of happiness (Gilbert, 2006).”
The cognitive neuroscience of constructive memory: remembering the past and imagining the future (2007, background): “This latter ability has been referred to by such terms as prospection (Gilbert 2006; Buckner & Carroll 2007) and episodic future thinking (Atance & O’Neill 2001, 2005).”
Taking a “Peak” at Leisure Travelers’ Positive Emotions (2012, background): “Intriguing findings about individuals’ inaccuracies in predicting and reflecting on their feelings (summarized in Gilbert, 2006) have also been linked to leisure travel (Wirtz, Kruger, Scollon, & Diener, 2003).”
How Gullible are We? A Review of the Evidence from Psychology and Social Science (2017, neutral): “…(D. G. Myers, 2011; Zimbardo, Johnson, & McCann, 2006), in sociology textbooks (see Schweingruber & Wohlstein, 2005), in books by psychologists (Gilbert, 2006; Kahneman, 2011), philosophers (Brennan, 2012; Stanley, 2015), economists (Akerlof & Shiller, 2015; Chang, 2014), and other scholars…”
International Happiness: A New View on the Measure of Performance (2011, background): “Wardle, and Marmot (2005), Gilbert (2006), Welsch (2006), Grant, Chris-”
Parenthood and Happiness: a Review of Folk Theories Versus Empirical Evidence (2011, neutral): “Gilbert (2006) calls it the ‘‘focusing illusion’’ that people, despite being aware of the challenges that children impose, mostly focus on the positive experiences when asked about parenting.”
Stakeholder Theory, Value, and Firm Performance (2013, background): “Happiness as a way of understanding utility received and thus the value provided to stakeholders builds from the ideas of Mill (1961) and connects to more recent writings (i.e., Gilbert, 2005; Haidt, 2006; Sidgwick, 1981; Shaw, 1999).”
Back to the future: the effect of daily practice of mental time travel into the future on happiness and anxiety (2009, background): “MTT into the future is considered as a crucial ability for human beings (Gilbert, 2006; Gilbert & Wilson, 2007; Suddendorf & Corballis, 1997, 2007; Wheeler et al., 1997).”
The Happiness of Giving: The Time-Ask Effect (2008, background): “Adding to this literature, our findings highlight an avenue to happiness that is often overlooked: people may in fact feel a rush of happiness when they help others (Gilbert 2006; Williams and Lee 2007).”
Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class (2007, background): “Psychologists like Gilbert (2006) noted that human beings systematically fail to accurately forecast future preferences, that is, we have a miserable record predicting what we will want.”
The Brain's Default Network (2008, background): “The adaptive function may be to provide a “life simulator”—a set of interacting sub-systems that can use past experiences to explore and anticipate social and event scenarios (Gilbert 2006, Gilbert & Wilson 2007).”
DEVELOPING A PREDICTIVE APPROACH TO KNOWLEDGE (2015, background): “Psychologists conjecture that people and animals continually make large numbers of shortterm predictions about their sensory input (Gilbert, 2006; Brogden, 1939; Pezzulo, 2008; Carlsson et al., 2000).”
Happiness, positive psychology and the program of neoliberal governmentality (2011, background): “In her best-selling work of popular psychology, The How of Happiness, Sonja Lyubomirsky, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside, defines the project of happiness as one that comfortably crosses this rational/emotional divide, drawing its credential from the expertise of”
Sustainable happiness: How happiness studies can contribute to a more sustainable future. (2008, background): “Gilbert (2007) implies that national economies thrive on the widely held erroneous belief that personal well-being is tied to production and consumption.”