¿Qué opinais sobre este trabajo del profesor Gilbert?
¿ Podríamos aplicarlo al placer musical?. Se puede medir el nivel de pitufez?
: Why is this man happy? (A: He married up.)
Marilynn Oliphant & Daniel Gilbert
When people think of "science," they naturally think of atoms, planets, robots - things they can touch and see. They know that subjective experiences such as happiness are important, but they believe that such experiences can't be studied scientifically. That belief is dead wrong.
What does it take to study something scientifically? One word: Measurement. If you can measure something, you can study it scientifically. Can we measure a person's subjective emotional experience? You bet. People can tell you with both words and actions what they are experiencing - what they are seeing, hearing, smelling, thinking, and feeling-and these reports are the essential data on which the science of experience is built. If you don't think such reports are reliable or valid, then you should feel free to discard my research papers.
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DANIEL GILBERT is he Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and Director of Harvard's Hedonic Psychology Laboratory. He is the author of the recently published STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS.
DANIEL GILBERT'S Edge Bio Page
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/gilbert.html
Saludos
Francisco
