WHY ARE WE HAPPY?
Don Gilbert->
Hardvard psychologist Don Gilbert says us our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong a premise he supports with intringuing research,and explains in his accessible and unexpectedly funny book.
There exist two types of happiness that Don Gilbert distinguishes:
- Synthetic happiness: it is the happiness that a person feels when a final aim has that to obtain, but it obtains another similar aim and to autobecome convinced that what it(he,she) has obtained is better than his former aim.
- Natural happiness :es the happiness that a person feels when it achieves some aim that has cost a lot of effort to him to manage.
A person who remains paraplegic and a person who gains the lottery after a year, for example, the person paraplegic, they will be equally happy.
BOOKS:
- Synthetic happiness: it is the happiness that a person feels when a final aim has that to obtain, but it obtains another similar aim and to autobecome convinced that what it(he,she) has obtained is better than his former aim.
- Natural happiness :es the happiness that a person feels when it achieves some aim that has cost a lot of effort to him to manage.
A person who remains paraplegic and a person who gains the lottery after a year, for example, the person paraplegic, they will be equally happy.
BOOKS:
- Gilbert, Daniel (2005). Stumbling on Happiness. New York, NY: Vintage Books. ISBN 1-400-04266-6.
- Fiske, Susan T.; Gilbert, Daniel T.; Lindzey, Gardner (2010). Handbook of social psychology (5th ed.). Hoboken, N.J: Wiley. ISBN 9780470137482.
