Webcast: Why are we happy? Why aren’t we happy?

May 17th, 2007 | Category: Anxiety Disorders

Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert challenges the notion that we’ll be miserable whether we don’t get what we want. He calls that kind of happiness “synthetic happiness,” and he says it’s “every bit as real and enduring as the kind

of happiness you stumble upon when you get precisely what you were aiming for.” Our “psychological immune system” lets us feel real, enduring happiness, he says, even when things don’t go as planned.

Original post by Anxiety Insights

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