TASK 1
Listen to the lecture. What is “the impact bias”?
TASK 2
Listen again. Note down as much information as you can about the people Dan Gilbert mentions.
Sir Thomas Brown
Achilles
Jim Wright
Newt Gingrich
Moreese Bickham
Harry S. Langerman
Ray Croc
Pete Best
TASK 3
Listen to the third part of the lecture and answer the following questions.
1. How are synthetic happiness and natural happiness different?
2. How is happiness related to economy?
3. What is the experiment with the Monet prints all about and what does it prove?
4. How was the experiment different with patients who had anterograde amnesia?
5. What is the Harvard experiment all about and what does it prove?
[CLUE: reversible condition vs. irreversible condition]
6. Why does Dan Gilbert quote Shakespeare and Adam Smith?
7. What final conclusion does Gilbert make?
TASK 4
Look at the cartoon.
How does it relate to “synthesized happiness”?