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 patients remember long medical procedures as being less pa...
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 patients remember long medical procedures as being less painful than short ones? Why do home sellers demand prices they wouldn’t dream of paying if they were home buyers? Why are shoppers happier when they can’t get refunds? 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. Vividly bringing to life the latest scientific research in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, and behavioral economics, Gilbert 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. 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.</p>
作者简介
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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...
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.
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...
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“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...
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7 有用 容懂 2009-08-27 23:15:17
几本幸福心理学为主题的畅销书中，这本的文学性和哲学性最高，实用性却是最低。Gilbert并不在乎给你什么实用的建议，而是引发你对于人类认知的探索和调侃。
0 有用 別有用心美少女 2022-04-09 20:30:59
姜姜分享的illegal copy. 三人共讀我極快速讀完 I shouldn’t read lol this type of self-help book never match me lol
0 有用 橘子 2013-03-19 12:52:15
这是基于 TED 演讲 做出的评分。人们对选择的预想是出乎自己意料的，人们对无法改变的事实不仅会接受，而且会更喜爱，反而对可以改变的东西，越来越不喜欢。但让人们去预想自己的喜爱程度，他们常常选择那个可选择的，不喜欢的。用户研究应当考虑到这点。 http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html
0 有用 Chivalriee 2022-01-21 23:50:48
很易读。由于已经读过不少心理学书籍，没有学到太多新东西。也如同他所说，他提出了问题，解释了问题根源，但一样没有答案。作者的类比和想象值得称赞。
0 有用 Inari 2016-02-25 04:46:28
对Happiness研究的review，感觉重点是人对happiness level的预测能力，以及回归于base line的倾向。有点经济行为学的味道？