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Daniel Gilbert

Psychology

#141

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#232

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#99

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Social Psychology

#65

World Rank

#74

Historical Rank

#48

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PhD Social Psychology Princeton University
Bachelors Psychology University of Colorado Boulder

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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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Published Works

A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind (2010) (1986)
The correspondence bias. (1995) (1808)
Affective Forecasting (2005) (1436)
Immune neglect: a source of durability bias in affective forecasting. (1998) (1372)
How mental systems believe. (1991) (1345)
The trouble of thinking: Activation and application of stereotypic beliefs. (1991) (1275)
On cognitive busyness: When person perceivers meet persons perceived. (1988) (1103)
Prospection: Experiencing the Future (2007) (1003)
Focalism: a source of durability bias in affective forecasting. (2000) (644)
When comparisons arise. (1995) (616)
Thinking lightly about others: Automatic components of the social inference process. (1989) (506)
You can't not believe everything you read. (1993) (468)
Reflexion and reflection: A social cognitive neuroscience approach to attributional inference (2002) (449)
Explaining Away: A Model of Affective Adaptation (2008) (429)
Comment on “Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science” (2016) (393)
The pleasures of uncertainty: prolonging positive moods in ways people do not anticipate. (2005) (386)
If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right (2011) (341)
Thinking backward: some curable and incurable consequences of cognitive busyness (1989) (340)
Decisions and revisions: the affective forecasting of changeable outcomes. (2002) (336)
Just think: The challenges of the disengaged mind (2014) (331)
Unbelieving the Unbelievable: Some problems in the rejection of false information (1990) (328)
Loss Aversion Is an Affective Forecasting Error (2006) (312)
The Future Is Now: Temporal Correction in Affective Forecasting☆ (2002) (307)
Bad riddance or good rubbish? Ownership and not loss aversion causes the endowment effect. (2009) (304)
Perceiver-Induced Constraint: Interpretations of Self-Generated Reality (1986) (303)
Of Thoughts Unspoken Social Inference and the Self-Regulation of Behavior (1988) (282)
Do Amnesics Exhibit Cognitive Dissonance Reduction? The Role of Explicit Memory and Attention in Attitude Change (2001) (262)
The fleeting gleam of praise: cognitive processes underlying behavioral reactions to self-relevant feedback. (1990) (252)
The feeling of uncertainty intensifies affective reactions. (2009) (249)
A Wrinkle in Time (2008) (232)
Miswanting: Some Problems in the Forecasting of Future Affective States (2000) (213)
The paradoxical consequences of revenge. (2008) (197)
Unbelieving the Unbelievable : Some Problems in the Rejection of False Information (2001) (195)
The End of History Illusion (2013) (188)
Expect the unexpected: failure to anticipate similarities leads to an intergroup forecasting error. (2008) (163)
Looking Forward to Looking Backward (2004) (161)
"HOW HAPPY WAS I, ANYWAY?" A RETROSPECTIVE IMPACT BIAS (2003) (160)
The Peculiar Longevity of Things Not So Bad (2004) (153)
Location, Location, Location: The Misprediction of Satisfaction in Housing Lotteries (2003) (144)
Psychology (2nd ed.) (2011) (137)
Seeing Less and Knowing More The Benefits of Perceptual Ignorance (1988) (135)
Why the brain talks to itself: sources of error in emotional prediction (2009) (132)
The Least Likely of Times (2005) (131)
The trouble with Vronsky: Impact bias in the forecasting of future affective states. (2002) (129)
Medial Prefrontal Cortex Predicts Intertemporal Choice (2011) (123)
Blurry Words and Fuzzy Deeds The Attribution of Obscure Behavior (1992) (109)
Lessons from the Past: Do People Learn from Experience that Emotional Reactions Are Short-Lived? (2001) (104)
It's a wonderful life: mentally subtracting positive events improves people's affective states, contrary to their affective forecasts. (2008) (101)
The Surprising Power of Neighborly Advice (2009) (90)
Speeding with Ned: A personal view of the correspondence bias. (1998) (82)
The impact bias is alive and well. (2013) (77)
The assent of man: Mental representation and the control of belief. (1993) (74)
Quantity versus uncertainty: When winning one prize is better than winning two (2007) (72)
The Momentary Realist (2000) (72)
Anticipating one's troubles: the costs and benefits of negative expectations. (2009) (68)
The illusion of external agency. (2000) (68)
Psychology (2nd Edition) (2011) (66)
Future anhedonia and time discounting (2008) (64)
Heuristics and Biases: Inferential Correction (2002) (63)
Protecting our minds: The role of lay beliefs. (1998) (62)
When to Fire: Anticipatory Versus Postevent Reconstrual of Uncontrollable Events (2004) (62)
Consuming experience: Why affective forecasters overestimate comparative value (2010) (56)
Prevalence-induced concept change in human judgment (2018) (55)
“He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not . . . ” (2011) (50)
Exemplification: The self‐presentation of moral character (1986) (47)
Influence and inference: What the active perceiver overlooks. (1987) (47)
The handbook of social psychology, Vols. 1-2, 4th ed. (1998) (43)
Heuristics and Biases: Durability Bias in Affective Forecasting (2002) (36)
Buried by bad decisions (2011) (35)
The Unforeseen Costs of Extraordinary Experience (2014) (34)
Mispredicting the hedonic benefits of segregated gains. (2007) (34)
Forecasting and Backcasting: Predicting the Impact of Events on the Future (2009) (29)
Misconceptions of Memory (2009) (29)
Social psychology–the science of human experience (2000) (28)
PHOTOGRAPHIC ENFORCEMENT OF TRAFFIC LAWS (1995) (25)
Immune Neglect: A Source of Durability (1998) (25)
Winners Love Winning and Losers Love Money (2011) (25)
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) (19)
Do conversations end when people want them to? (2021) (17)
The Novelty Penalty (2017) (16)
Predicting what we will like: Asking a stranger can be as good as asking a friend (2015) (15)
When fairness matters less than we expect (2016) (14)
The mind is its own place: The difficulties and benefits of thinking for pleasure (2018) (12)
You can do it if you really try: The effects of motivation on thinking for pleasure (2017) (12)
The Novelty Penalty: Why Do People Like Talking About New Experiences but Hearing About Old Ones? (2017) (10)
“Show Me the Money” (2013) (9)
Cross-cultural consistency and relativity in the enjoyment of thinking versus doing. (2019) (9)
Perceptions of Moral-Expectancy Violation: The Role of Expectancy Source (1984) (8)
Sensation and perception (2016) (8)
Still a thrill: Meaning making and the pleasures of uncertainty. (2013) (7)
"How mental systems believe": Reply. (1992) (6)
Becoming stranger: When future selves join the out-group. (2016) (6)
Are psychology's tribes ready to form a nation? (2002) (4)
The Psychology of Good Ideas (2003) (4)
Previews, Premotions, and Predictions (2011) (3)
The "same person" heuristic: An attributional procedure based on an assumption about person similarity. (1983) (3)
Caught red-minded: Evidence-induced denial of mental transgressions. (2016) (2)
prediction Why the brain talks to itself : sources of error in emotional (2009) (2)
SMILE! YOU'RE ON CANDID CAMERA (2000) (2)
Your life satisfaction will change more than you think: A comment on Harris and Busseri (2019) (2020) (2)
'Just because you like it doesn't mean I will too:' Cross-cultural similarities in ignoring others' opinions (2015) (2)
Would you fund this movie? A reply to Fox et al. (2014) (2014) (1)
Future anhedonia and time discounting q (2008) (1)
Neuroscience and behaviour (2016) (1)
RACIAL PROFILING: THE CONTROVERSY (1999) (1)
Study guide to accompany Psychology (2008) (1)
CAMERAS CATCH TRAFFIC OFFENDERS IN ACT (1996) (1)
Tips From the Top: Do the Best Performers Really Give the Best Advice? (2022) (1)
Psychology Study Guide (2007) (1)
Emotion and motivation (2016) (1)
Can't Not Believe Everything \bu Read (1993) (0)
Edward E. Jones (1926–1993): Obituary. (1994) (0)
What powers do police have at traffic stops (1995) (0)
SPEEDERS SEE THE LIGHT (1999) (0)
Supporting Online Material for A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind (2010) (0)
HEED THE POLICE OR GO TO JAIL: THAT'S THE LAW (1999) (0)
What makes thinking for pleasure pleasurable? (2020) (0)
Shock therapy and informed consent. (1981) (0)
1 X DUI = LOSE WHEELS IN BIG APPLE!. (1999) (0)
Speak Up! Mistaken Beliefs About How Much to Talk in Conversations. (2022) (0)
THE TRAGIC RESULTS OF CARGO BAYS REVISITED (1997) (0)
You can do it if you really try: The effects of motivation on thinking for pleasure (2017) (0)
HOW TO ADMINISTER JUSTICE EFFICIENTLY (1995) (0)
UNIFORM TRAFFIC LAWS - LASER DETECTORS VS SPEED LAWS (1993) (0)
A Short Story (2008) (0)
A new method for the absolute measurement of geomagnetism beginning with DI Flux (1990) (0)
PUT AN END TO REPEAT DUI OFFENDERS (1995) (0)
Motivation and Capacity in the Selection of Comparison Standards (2010) (0)
UNIFORM TRAFFIC LAWS - CHILDREN RIDING IN PICKUPS (1992) (0)
THE EYES HAVE IT (2000) (0)
The Misprediction of Regret (2004) (0)
A trade-off model of intentional thinking for pleasure. (2021) (0)
GIVE DOCTORS GREEN LIGHT TO REPORT IMPAIRED DRIVERS (1996) (0)
DRUG INTERDICTION CHECKPOINT: A NEW WEAPON AGAINST THE DRUGGED DRIVER (1998) (0)
References for the NJAFP 2013 (2013) (0)
Intranasal Oxytocin Modulates Decision-Making Depending on Outcome Predictability—A Randomized Within-Subject Controlled Trial in Healthy Males (2022) (0)
OF BAT MOBILES AND TROJAN HORSES (1998) (0)
Stuck in the Middle: the Effect of Number of Alternatives on Adaptation to Outcomes (2008) (0)
TRAFFIC COURT--AN OVERBURDENED SYSTEM (1997) (0)
Consuming Experiences Shift Standards Through Attentional Collapse (2008) (0)
Attributional Inference Dispositional Anchoring Spontaneous Trait Inference Situational Adjustment Trope ’ s Model : Quattrone ’ s Model : (2001) (0)
How do the complexities of engaging in social interaction affect the process of social perception ? (2001) (0)
ZERO TOLERANCE LAWS SAVE LIVES (1994) (0)
ATTITUDES AND SOCIAL COGNITION Can't Not Believe Everything \bu Read (2004) (0)
THE PROBLEM OF THE PERMANENTLY TILTED (0)
Edward Ellsworth Jones (1997) (0)
FIELD SOBRIETY TESTING: A SWORD OR A SHIELD? (1999) (0)
HOW OFFICERS DETECT DRUGGED DRIVERS (1996) (0)
The happiness agenda: happiness, science and society (2011) (0)
Capturing and Banding Limpkins in Florida (1976) (0)
and Losers Love Money (2011) (0)
The methods of psychology (2016) (0)
HOW POLICE CAN SET UP CONSTITUTIONAL ROADBLOCKS (1996) (0)
UNIFORM TRAFFIC LAWS - THREE HOURS FOR POLICE AND PROSECUTORS (1993) (0)
The eyes have it! [EYECHECK.PMD driver impairment pupil measurement device] (2000) (0)
WHY IT'S HARD TO STOP IMPAIRED DRIVERS (1998) (0)
ARE LICENSE SUSPENSION LAWS IN JEOPARDY (1995) (0)
GOTCHA! MOBILE VIDEO CAMERAS GIVE LAW ENFORCEMENT AN EDGE. (1998) (0)
Subjects " Predictions of Target ' s State Anxiety in Hypothetical Situations (2001) (0)
Psychology: the evolution of a science (2016) (0)
WARNING: HAZARDS AHEAD ON ROADWAY (1995) (0)
THE STATE OF VEHICLE SEARCHES (1999) (0)

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