Daniel Gilbert Audio & Video

Smart, witty, accessible, and laugh-out-loud funny, "Stumbling on Happiness" brilliantly describes all that science has to reveal about the uniquely human ability to envision the future, and how likely people are to enjoy it when they get there.

Check out this TED talk from Harvard psychologist and the author of Stumbling on Happiness, Dan Gilbert. Gilbert provides info from studies that reveal that what we often think will make us happy is the opposite of the case.

Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, hosts this talk on the neuroscience of happiness at The Aspen Institute.

If you ask people does money buy happiness, they all get very high-minded and say, well, of course not and they begin to preach to you about love, meaning and other things.

The History of Happiness according to Sissela Bok, Darrin McMahon, and Daniel Gilbert.