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Stumbling on happiness / Daniel Gilbert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gilbert, Daniel Todd
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Happiness.
- Medical Subjects:
- Happiness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 277 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : A.A. Knopf, 2006.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This smart and funny book by a prominent Harvard psychologist, which uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes, reveals why people are so lousy at predicting what will make them happy--and what they can do about it.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- pt. 1. Prospection
- 1. Journey to Elsewhen
- pt. 2. Subjectivity
- 2. The view from in here
- 3. Outside looking in
- pt. 3. Realism
- 4. In the blind spot of the mind's eye
- 5. The hound of silence
- pt. 4. Presentism
- 6. The future is now
- 7. Time bombs
- pt. 5. Rationalization
- 8. Paradise glossed
- 9. Immune to reality
- pt. 6. Corrigibility
- 10. Once bitten
- 11. Reporting live from tomorrow
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Howard R. Jachman Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Gilbert, Daniel Todd. Stumbling on happiness.
- ISBN:
- 9780307265302
- 0307265307
- Publisher Number:
- 99988172326
- 9781400042661
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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