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Dan Gilbert on Happiness

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Watch this video from TED featuring Dan Gilbert on HowStuffWorks. Gilbert is a psychology professor at Harvard, and author of "Stumbling on Happiness". In this video, Gilbert demonstrates just how poor we humans are at predicting (or understanding) what will make us happy. See how happiness and depression work in this video from TED (www.ted.com)

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