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Want to know what will make you happy? Then ask a total stranger — or so says a new study from Harvard University, which shows that another person’s experience is often more than your own best guess.
The study, which appears in the current issue of Science, was led by Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard and author of the 2007 bestseller “Stumbling on Happiness,” along with Matthew Killingsworth and Rebecca Eyre, also of Harvard, and Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia.
“If you want to know how much you will enjoy an experience, you are better off knowing how much someone else enjoyed it than knowing anything about the experience itself,” says Gilbert. “Rather than closing our eyes and the future, we should examine the experience of those who have been there. Previous research in psychology, neuroscience, and behavioural economics has shown that people have difficulty predicting what they will like and how much they will like it, which them to make a wide variety of poor decisions. Interventions aimed at the accuracy with which people imagine future events have been generally unsuccessful.
The study, which appears in the current issue of Science, was led by Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard and author of the 2007 bestseller “Stumbling on Happiness,” along with Matthew Killingsworth and Rebecca Eyre, also of Harvard, and Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia.
“If you want to know how much you will enjoy an experience, you are better off knowing how much someone else enjoyed it than knowing anything about the experience itself,” says Gilbert. “Rather than closing our eyes and the future, we should examine the experience of those who have been there. Previous research in psychology, neuroscience, and behavioural economics has shown that people have difficulty predicting what they will like and how much they will like it, which them to make a wide variety of poor decisions. Interventions aimed at the accuracy with which people imagine future events have been generally unsuccessful.
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