Daniel Gilbert is Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He has won numerous awards for his teaching and research, including the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology. His research has been covered by The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, Money, CNN, U.S. News & World Report, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Self, Men's Health, Redbook, Glamour, Psychology Today, and many others. His short stories have appeared in Amazing Stories and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, as well as other magazines and anthologies. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Bringing to life scientific research in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, and behavioral economics, this bestselling book reveals what scientists have discovered about the uniquely human ability to imagine the future, and about our capacity to predict how much we will like it when we get there.
• Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in the sink?
• Why will sighted people pay more to avoid going blind than blind people will pay to regain their sight?
• Why do dining companions insist on ordering different meals instead of getting what they really want?
• Why do pigeons seem to have such excellent aim; why can’t we remember one song while listening to another; and why does the line at the grocery store always slow down the moment we join it?
In this brilliant, witty, and accessible book, renowned Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert describes the foibles of imagination and illusions of foresight that cause each of us to misconceive our tomorrows and misestimate our satisfactions. With penetrating insight and sparkling prose, Gilbert explains why we seem to know so little about the hearts and minds of the people we are about to become.
首先,这不是一本温情脉脉救世主式的Self-help Book,Gilbert在前言里很明确地表示: This is not an instruction manual that will tell you anything useful about how to be happy. Those books are located in the self help section and once you've bought one, done ever...
评分一个幸福的人,必须有一个明确的、可以带来快乐和意义的目标,然后努力地去追求。真正快乐的人,会在自己觉得有意义的生活方式里,享受它的点点滴滴。 一个幸福的人,是即能享受当下所做的事,又可以获得美满的未来。 寻找真正能让自己快乐而有意义的目标,才是获得幸福的关键...
评分“If anything can go wrong, it will.”Ever since a US Air Force engineer called Ed Murphy made this curse in 1949 when finding that every piece of a project was wired exactly the wrong way, adding new entries to this so-called Murphy’s Law has become a pop...
评分 评分幸福是一种病 据说现代社会有三粒毒药:消费主义、性自由和成功学。 其实并非如此简单。 在我充满怀疑的眼光看来,一切被过度提倡的主题,都是不可信的。 比如。 比如风靡全国多年不衰的减肥风潮。 多少傻呵呵的娘们儿真的上了当,喝减肥茶节食健身抽脂无所不为,胆子大的连蛔...
TED上看了作者的演讲,觉得很受用~
评分人要先快乐 学习工作效率才高 = =
评分不是个人喜欢的话题,可是幽默的笔触和深刻的见解,确实是一本不可多得的好书
评分TED上看了作者的演讲,觉得很受用~
评分不是个人喜欢的话题,可是幽默的笔触和深刻的见解,确实是一本不可多得的好书
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