Daniel Gilbert Immune To Reality Summary

Daniel Gilbert’s article “Immune to Reality” reveals how humans tend to make up excuses for their behavior in defence to the psychological immune system. Gilbert looks at the mechanisms we use to fend off unhappiness and spells out the details of what he calls the psychological immune system. Like the physical immune system defends us from illness, the psychological immune system defends us from unhappiness. Gilbert says, "Ignorance of our psychological immune system causes us to predict incorrectly the circumstance under which we will face". In other words, every day people are shocked because when they have thought a situation would make them happy, but that results to the opposite. They only pay attention to their personal belief and they