The riddle of experience vs. memory | Daniel Kahneman

http://www.ted.com Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering...

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Everybody talks about happiness these days.I had somebody count the number of bookswith "happiness" in the title published in the last five yearsand they gave up after about 40, and there were many more.There is a huge wave of interest in happiness,among researchers.There is a lot of happiness coaching.Everybody would like to make people happier.But in spite of all this flood of work,there are several cognitive trapsthat sort of make it almost impossible to think straightabout happiness.And my talk today will be mostly about these cognitive traps.This applies to laypeople thinking about their own happiness,and it applies to scholars thinking about happiness,because it turns out we're just as messed up as anybody else is.The first of these tr...