In the article “ Immune to Reality” written by profound psychologist Daniel Gilbert, he makes a strong argument about why human beings are forever wrongly predicting what will make them happy. Gilbert is a well known researcher in psychological happiness, a field that has incited the attention of well refined and high profile psychologists, and researchers, as well as a lot of interested students. Gilbert argues that the mind's ability to adjust to certain circumstances will make oneself happier. Gilbert states in his article that the mind is always protecting itself in the sense that it will convince itself that everything will be fine even when things are crumbling around it. Daniel Gilbert exclaims in the article “ ignorance of our psychological
a person is having to a traumatic experience, as well as the optimal ways to go about the healing process. In Daniel Gilbert’s Stumbling on Happiness, specifically the chapter titled “Immune to Reality,” he analyzes what he calls the psychological immune system, a defence mechanism of the psyche which plays a prominent role in how a person will respond in the event of trauma. While Gilbert outlines the mechanisms that cause people to respond to trauma in the way that they do, Dana Becker, author of
them in an unexpected way. Individuals tend to be extremely guarded when it comes to their emotions so building a stable psychological immune system is essential to their health and overall well being. When things don’t go as planned, people look for the positives because it enables them to smile as they will be in a better light. In Immune to Reality, Daniel Gilbert, introduces this idea by showing how bias thinking affects the decisions people make. When they are disappointed by a negative occurrence
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