Stumbling on happiness
Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in the sink? Why do patients remember long medical procedures as less painful than short ones? Why do home sellers demand prices they wouldn't dream of paying if they were home buyers? Why does the lin...
| Main Author: | Gilbert, Daniel Todd. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
A.A. Knopf,
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- pt. 1. Prospection
- 1. Journey to Elsewhen
- pt. 2. Subjectivity
- 2. The view from in here
- 3. Outside looking in
- pt. 3. Realism
- 4. In the blind spot of the mind's eye
- 5. The hound of silence
- pt. 4. Presentism
- 6. The future is now
- 7. Time bombs
- pt. 5. Rationalization
- 8. Paradise glossed
- 9. Immune to reality
- pt. 6. Corrigibility
- 10. Once bitten
- 11. Reporting live from tomorrow
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index.