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Want to know what will make you happy ? Then ask a total stranger ? or so says a ____________________ study from Harvard University , which shows that another person's experience is often more ____________________ than your own best guess .
The study , which appears in the current issue of Science , was ____________________ by Daniel Gilbert , professor of psychology at Harvard and author of the 2007 bestseller Stumbling on Happiness , along with Matthew Killingsworth and Rebecca Eyre , ____________________ of Harvard , and Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia .
? If you want to know how much you will enjoy an experience , you are ____________________ off knowing how much someone else enjoyed it than knowing anything about the experience itself , ? says Gilbert . ? Rather than closing our eyes and ____________________ the future , we should examine the experience of ____________________ who have been there .
Previous research in psychology , neuroscience , and behavioral economics has shown that people have difficulty predicting what they will like and how much they will like it , which ____________________ them to make a wide variety of poor decisions . ____________________ aimed at ____________________ the accuracy with which people ____________________ future ____________________ have been generally unsuccessful .