Not offering a self-help book, but instead mounting a scientific explanation of the limitations of the human imagination and how it steers us wrong in our search for happiness, Gilbert, a professor of ...

It sure feels as if we now live in a post-happiness world. And we all know whom to blame — the guy who has lived rent free in our heads for so long, who dragged us into this low point in human history ...

In his book Stumbling on Happiness, Dan Gilbert presents his version of "The Sentence": the one statement that every psychologist will make at some point or another in her career. Humans are the only ...

The problem with psychology these days, according to Kagan, is semantics: The discipline is crippled by the overarching and strained language (made up of words like "anxiety," "reward" and "ego") on ...