Daniel Gilbert writes psychology about prediction, memory and why people often misunderstand what will make their future selves happy. Stumbling on Happiness explains research on affective forecasting: the tendency to overestimate how strongly future events will affect wellbeing and to imagine future experiences using incomplete information from the present. Gilbert moves through memory, imagination, adaptation and social comparison using experiments, jokes and everyday examples rather than self-help exercises. The book is less about becoming happy than about understanding systematic errors in anticipating emotion. His prose is witty, clear and research-led. His work fits popular psychology, decision-making and happiness research, particularly for readers of Daniel Kahneman and Dan Ariely. Read more Less
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