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Decide Already! You vs. Future You; Or Why We’re Bad at Predicting Our Own Happiness

In this podcast, Shankar Vedantam speaks with Professor Dan Gilbert about how we make decisions. This podcast covers how our emotions, thoughts or assumptions about the future, uncertainty, memory, and happiness can play into the decisions we make. Professor Gilbert reviews several research projects as examples of the phenomenon.

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Decide Already! You Vs. Future You Podcast