how delicious we thought it was. It reveals a distortion in our capacity to anticipate — or forecast in the words of the American social psychologist Daniel Gilbert — how we will feel, and in particular, how much we will like the experience. This is a problem for the elements of pleasure that I laid out earlier i

ng to impress is fine, but do it for the right people—those you want to emulate. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013994 --- PAGE BREAK --- Slow meals = life. From Daniel Gilbert of Harvard to Martin Seligman of Princeton, the “happiness” (self-reported well-being) researchers seem to agree on one thing: Mealtime with friends

ience experiments, in which participants agree to electrocute one another at the experimenter’s request to show that people are sheep. "Psychologist Daniel Gilbert, a strong proponent of the view that humans are gullible, has even claimed that people couldn’t help but believe (at first at least) everything they