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Dan Gilbert spørger, "Hvorfor er vi glade?"

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Dan Gilbert, forfatter af "Stumbling on Happiness", udfordrer ideen om, at vi er ulykkelige, hvis vi ikke får, hvad vi ønsker os. Vores "psykologiske immunsystem" får os til at føle os rigtigt glade, selv når ting ikke går som planlagt.

Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong -- a premise he supports with intriguing research, and explains in his accessible and unexpectedly funny book, Stumbling on Happiness. Full bio »

Translated into Danish by David J. Kreps Finnemann
Reviewed by Asger Bachmann
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