Imagination is a “life-simulator” that often poorly predicts what will bring us happiness, said Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard and New York Times bestselling author, in a lecture ...

Not offering a self-help book, but instead mounting a scientific explanation of the limitations of the human imagination and how it steers us wrong in our search for happiness, Gilbert, a professor of ...

Can only a good person be truly happy? Or do we only wish this were the case? Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert, author of the delightful Stumbling on Happiness, thinks we only wish this were true.

It’s the start of a new year, so think ahead, if you will, to December 31, 2008. What are your hopes for the next 12 months? Maybe you want to be richer or slimmer, get married or get divorced, become ...

2021 is the year of the roller skate. Why Chasing After Happiness Is Making You Unhappy Stuck on a "hedonic treadmill?" Studies show that people are often wrong about what they think will make them ...