Daniel Gilbert

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Daniel Gilbert is affiliated with the following schools: Harvard University, University of Virginia, University of Texas at Austin, University of Colorado Denver, Princeton University

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Daniel Todd Gilbert currently holds the title of Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Previously, Gilbert worked at the University of Texas at Austin. Gilbert completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Colorado Denver, and earned his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1985.

Gilbert is a social psychologist straddling the roles of academic psychologist and popular author. His work focuses on emotion, and he is best known for his 2006 book Stumbling on Happiness, as well as several TED talks, essays in popular magazines and newspapers, and the NOVA series This Emotional Life. Gilbert’s work often focuses on the concept of “affective forecasting,” or how we perceive and predict our future emotional states, and how these perceptions affect our behavior and decisions.

For his work, Gilbert has received numerous honors and awards, including the Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology from the American Psychological Association, and the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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According to Wikipedia, Daniel Todd Gilbert is an American social psychologist and writer. He is the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and is known for his research with Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia on affective forecasting. He is the author of the international bestseller Stumbling on Happiness, which has been translated into more than 30 languages and won the 2007 Royal Society Prizes for Science Books. He has also written essays for several newspapers and magazines, hosted a non-fiction television series on PBS, and given three popular TED talks.

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Daniel Gilbert 's Published Works

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The Handbook of Social Psychology (1935) (13018)
A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind (2010) (1810)
The correspondence bias. (1995) (1740)
Affective Forecasting (2005) (1365)
Immune neglect: a source of durability bias in affective forecasting. (1998) (1320)
How mental systems believe. (1991) (1306)
The trouble of thinking: Activation and application of stereotypic beliefs. (1991) (1248)
On cognitive busyness: When person perceivers meet persons perceived. (1988) (1081)
Prospection: Experiencing the Future (2007) (935)
Focalism: a source of durability bias in affective forecasting. (2000) (602)
When comparisons arise. (1995) (559)
Thinking lightly about others: Automatic components of the social inference process. (1989) (500)
Reflexion and reflection: A social cognitive neuroscience approach to attributional inference (2002) (438)
You can't not believe everything you read. (1993) (417)
Explaining Away: A Model of Affective Adaptation (2008) (394)
The pleasures of uncertainty: prolonging positive moods in ways people do not anticipate. (2005) (374)
Comment on “Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science” (2016) (365)
Thinking backward: some curable and incurable consequences of cognitive busyness (1989) (334)
Unbelieving the Unbelievable: Some problems in the rejection of false information (1990) (324)
Decisions and revisions: the affective forecasting of changeable outcomes. (2002) (319)
If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right (2011) (311)
Perceiver-Induced Constraint: Interpretations of Self-Generated Reality (1986) (300)
Loss Aversion Is an Affective Forecasting Error (2006) (300)
The Future Is Now: Temporal Correction in Affective Forecasting☆ (2002) (297)
Just think: The challenges of the disengaged mind (2014) (295)
Bad riddance or good rubbish? Ownership and not loss aversion causes the endowment effect. (2009) (283)
Of Thoughts Unspoken Social Inference and the Self-Regulation of Behavior (1988) (275)
Do Amnesics Exhibit Cognitive Dissonance Reduction? The Role of Explicit Memory and Attention in Attitude Change (2001) (257)
The fleeting gleam of praise: cognitive processes underlying behavioral reactions to self-relevant feedback. (1990) (236)
A Wrinkle in Time (2008) (223)
The feeling of uncertainty intensifies affective reactions. (2009) (222)
Miswanting: Some Problems in the Forecasting of Future Affective States (2000) (205)
The paradoxical consequences of revenge. (2008) (184)
Unbelieving the Unbelievable : Some Problems in the Rejection of False Information (2001) (177)
The End of History Illusion (2013) (176)
Looking Forward to Looking Backward (2004) (163)
Expect the unexpected: failure to anticipate similarities leads to an intergroup forecasting error. (2008) (156)
"HOW HAPPY WAS I, ANYWAY?" A RETROSPECTIVE IMPACT BIAS (2003) (151)
The Peculiar Longevity of Things Not So Bad (2004) (149)
Psychology (2nd ed.) (2011) (135)
Location, Location, Location: The Misprediction of Satisfaction in Housing Lotteries (2003) (134)
The Least Likely of Times (2005) (134)
Seeing Less and Knowing More The Benefits of Perceptual Ignorance (1988) (129)
Why the brain talks to itself: sources of error in emotional prediction (2009) (126)
The trouble with Vronsky: Impact bias in the forecasting of future affective states. (2002) (124)
Medial Prefrontal Cortex Predicts Intertemporal Choice (2011) (117)
Blurry Words and Fuzzy Deeds The Attribution of Obscure Behavior (1992) (108)
Lessons from the Past: Do People Learn from Experience that Emotional Reactions Are Short-Lived? (2001) (102)
It's a wonderful life: mentally subtracting positive events improves people's affective states, contrary to their affective forecasts. (2008) (94)
The Surprising Power of Neighborly Advice (2009) (89)
Speeding with Ned: A personal view of the correspondence bias. (1998) (80)
The assent of man: Mental representation and the control of belief. (1993) (72)
The Momentary Realist (2000) (71)
The impact bias is alive and well. (2013) (71)
Quantity versus uncertainty: When winning one prize is better than winning two (2007) (68)
The illusion of external agency. (2000) (67)
Psychology (2nd Edition) (2011) (66)
Anticipating one's troubles: the costs and benefits of negative expectations. (2009) (65)
Heuristics and Biases: Inferential Correction (2002) (62)
Future anhedonia and time discounting (2008) (62)
Protecting our minds: The role of lay beliefs. (1998) (62)
When to Fire: Anticipatory Versus Postevent Reconstrual of Uncontrollable Events (2004) (59)
Consuming experience: Why affective forecasters overestimate comparative value (2010) (55)
“He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not . . . ” (2011) (49)
Prevalence-induced concept change in human judgment (2018) (47)
Influence and inference: What the active perceiver overlooks. (1987) (46)
Exemplification: The self‐presentation of moral character (1986) (45)
The handbook of social psychology, Vols. 1-2, 4th ed. (1998) (42)
Heuristics and Biases: Durability Bias in Affective Forecasting (2002) (35)
Mispredicting the hedonic benefits of segregated gains. (2007) (33)
Buried by bad decisions (2011) (33)
Misconceptions of Memory (2009) (32)
The Unforeseen Costs of Extraordinary Experience (2014) (32)
Forecasting and Backcasting: Predicting the Impact of Events on the Future (2009) (28)
Social psychology–the science of human experience (2000) (28)
Immune Neglect: A Source of Durability (1998) (25)
PHOTOGRAPHIC ENFORCEMENT OF TRAFFIC LAWS (1995) (25)
Winners Love Winning and Losers Love Money (2011) (23)
The Handbook of Social Psychology: Fourth Edition, Vols. 1 and 2 (1998) (21)
With a Little Help for Our Thoughts: Making It Easier to Think for Pleasure (2017) (17)
The Novelty Penalty (2017) (15)
Predicting what we will like: Asking a stranger can be as good as asking a friend (2015) (15)
Do conversations end when people want them to? (2021) (14)
When fairness matters less than we expect (2016) (12)
You can do it if you really try: The effects of motivation on thinking for pleasure (2017) (11)
The mind is its own place: The difficulties and benefits of thinking for pleasure (2018) (11)
Perceptions of Moral-Expectancy Violation: The Role of Expectancy Source (1984) (8)
Cross-cultural consistency and relativity in the enjoyment of thinking versus doing. (2019) (8)
Sensation and perception (2016) (8)
The Novelty Penalty: Why Do People Like Talking About New Experiences but Hearing About Old Ones? (2017) (8)
“Show Me the Money” (2013) (7)
"How mental systems believe": Reply. (1992) (6)
Becoming stranger: When future selves join the out-group. (2016) (6)
Still a thrill: Meaning making and the pleasures of uncertainty. (2013) (6)
Are psychology's tribes ready to form a nation? (2002) (4)
Previews, Premotions, and Predictions (2011) (3)
The Psychology of Good Ideas (2003) (3)
The "same person" heuristic: An attributional procedure based on an assumption about person similarity. (1983) (3)
SMILE! YOU'RE ON CANDID CAMERA (2000) (2)
prediction Why the brain talks to itself : sources of error in emotional (2009) (2)
Caught red-minded: Evidence-induced denial of mental transgressions. (2016) (2)
'Just because you like it doesn't mean I will too:' Cross-cultural similarities in ignoring others' opinions (2015) (2)
Your life satisfaction will change more than you think: A comment on Harris and Busseri (2019) (2020) (2)
Neuroscience and behaviour (2016) (1)
Would you fund this movie? A reply to Fox et al. (2014) (2014) (1)
CAMERAS CATCH TRAFFIC OFFENDERS IN ACT (1996) (1)
RACIAL PROFILING: THE CONTROVERSY (1999) (1)
Emotion and motivation (2016) (1)
Study guide to accompany Psychology (2008) (1)
Psychology Study Guide (2007) (1)
Future anhedonia and time discounting q (2008) (1)
UNIFORM TRAFFIC LAWS - LASER DETECTORS VS SPEED LAWS (1993) (0)
Stuck in the Middle: the Effect of Number of Alternatives on Adaptation to Outcomes (2008) (0)
WARNING: HAZARDS AHEAD ON ROADWAY (1995) (0)
Psychology: the evolution of a science (2016) (0)
THE PROBLEM OF THE PERMANENTLY TILTED (0)
References for the NJAFP 2013 (2013) (0)
Tips From the Top: Do the Best Performers Really Give the Best Advice? (2022) (0)
ATTITUDES AND SOCIAL COGNITION Can't Not Believe Everything \bu Read (2004) (0)
How do the complexities of engaging in social interaction affect the process of social perception ? (2001) (0)
GOTCHA! MOBILE VIDEO CAMERAS GIVE LAW ENFORCEMENT AN EDGE. (1998) (0)
HEED THE POLICE OR GO TO JAIL: THAT'S THE LAW (1999) (0)
PUT AN END TO REPEAT DUI OFFENDERS (1995) (0)
Shock therapy and informed consent. (1981) (0)
Can't Not Believe Everything \bu Read (1993) (0)
A Short Story (2008) (0)
Subjects " Predictions of Target ' s State Anxiety in Hypothetical Situations (2001) (0)
OF BAT MOBILES AND TROJAN HORSES (1998) (0)
Supporting Online Material for A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind (2010) (0)
The happiness agenda: happiness, science and society (2011) (0)
Edward E. Jones (1926–1993): Obituary. (1994) (0)
HOW OFFICERS DETECT DRUGGED DRIVERS (1996) (0)
1 X DUI = LOSE WHEELS IN BIG APPLE!. (1999) (0)
THE EYES HAVE IT (2000) (0)
GIVE DOCTORS GREEN LIGHT TO REPORT IMPAIRED DRIVERS (1996) (0)
A new method for the absolute measurement of geomagnetism beginning with DI Flux (1990) (0)
WHY IT'S HARD TO STOP IMPAIRED DRIVERS (1998) (0)
SPEEDERS SEE THE LIGHT (1999) (0)
HOW POLICE CAN SET UP CONSTITUTIONAL ROADBLOCKS (1996) (0)
The eyes have it! [EYECHECK.PMD driver impairment pupil measurement device] (2000) (0)
What powers do police have at traffic stops (1995) (0)
The methods of psychology (2016) (0)
Motivation and Capacity in the Selection of Comparison Standards (2010) (0)
What makes thinking for pleasure pleasurable? (2020) (0)
HOW TO ADMINISTER JUSTICE EFFICIENTLY (1995) (0)
UNIFORM TRAFFIC LAWS - CHILDREN RIDING IN PICKUPS (1992) (0)
Attributional Inference Dispositional Anchoring Spontaneous Trait Inference Situational Adjustment Trope ’ s Model : Quattrone ’ s Model : (2001) (0)
THE STATE OF VEHICLE SEARCHES (1999) (0)
THE TRAGIC RESULTS OF CARGO BAYS REVISITED (1997) (0)
Edward Ellsworth Jones (1997) (0)
ARE LICENSE SUSPENSION LAWS IN JEOPARDY (1995) (0)
ZERO TOLERANCE LAWS SAVE LIVES (1994) (0)
FIELD SOBRIETY TESTING: A SWORD OR A SHIELD? (1999) (0)
Consuming Experiences Shift Standards Through Attentional Collapse (2008) (0)
A trade-off model of intentional thinking for pleasure. (2021) (0)
The Misprediction of Regret (2004) (0)
Speak Up! Mistaken Beliefs About How Much to Talk in Conversations. (2022) (0)
TRAFFIC COURT--AN OVERBURDENED SYSTEM (1997) (0)
DRUG INTERDICTION CHECKPOINT: A NEW WEAPON AGAINST THE DRUGGED DRIVER (1998) (0)
and Losers Love Money (2011) (0)
UNIFORM TRAFFIC LAWS - THREE HOURS FOR POLICE AND PROSECUTORS (1993) (0)
Capturing and Banding Limpkins in Florida (1976) (0)

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