William B. Irvine

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Dan Gilbert |Catherine Price |Ross Gay |William B. Irvine

Stumbling on Happinessby Dan GilbertGilbert researches the ways in which we’re bad at predicting what’ll make us happy, and what might hurt us. Prospection is an amazing power that humans have, but it’s kind of in beta version. One of our systematic errors is that we constantly overestimate the effects—magnitude and duration—that our circumstances will have on us. It’s what Gilbert refers to as impact bias.