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Thomas Gilovich

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#237

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#345

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#162

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Social Psychology

#40

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#49

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#30

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PhD Psychology Stanford University
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Santa Barbara

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According to Wikipedia, Thomas Dashiff Gilovich an American psychologist who is the Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. He has conducted research in social psychology, decision making, behavioral economics, and has written popular books on these subjects. Gilovich has collaborated with Daniel Kahneman, Richard Nisbett, Lee Ross and Amos Tversky. His articles in peer-reviewed journals on subjects such as cognitive biases have been widely cited. In addition, Gilovich has been quoted in the media on subjects ranging from the effect of purchases on happiness to perception of judgment in social situations. Gilovich is a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

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Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment (2002) (3745)
The hot hand in basketball: On the misperception of random sequences (1985) (1481)
Does Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation (1993) (1373)
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life (1991) (1067)
Perspective taking as egocentric anchoring and adjustment. (2004) (1063)
The experience of regret: what, when, and why. (1995) (979)
To do or to have? That is the question. (2003) (899)
The Anchoring-and-Adjustment Heuristic (2006) (635)
Objectivity in the eye of the beholder: divergent perceptions of bias in self versus others. (2004) (635)
Putting Adjustment Back in the Anchoring and Adjustment Heuristic: Differential Processing of Self-Generated and Experimenter-Provided Anchors (2001) (628)
The illusion of transparency: biased assessments of others' ability to read one's emotional states. (1998) (483)
The dark side of self- and social perception: black uniforms and aggression in professional sports. (1988) (462)
The spotlight effect in social judgment: an egocentric bias in estimates of the salience of one's own actions and appearance. (2000) (454)
Biased evaluation and persistence in gambling. (1983) (412)
When less is more: counterfactual thinking and satisfaction among Olympic medalists. (1995) (399)
The relative relativity of material and experiential purchases. (2010) (364)
The temporal pattern to the experience of regret. (1994) (350)
The evolution of one-shot cooperation: An experiment (1993) (348)
Seeing the past in the present: The effect of associations to familiar events on judgments and decisions. (1981) (312)
I am what I do, not what I have: the differential centrality of experiential and material purchases to the self. (2012) (276)
Do Economists Make Bad Citizens (1996) (276)
When effortful thinking influences judgmental anchoring: differential effects of forewarning and incentives on self‐generated and externally provided anchors (2005) (269)
A wonderful life: experiential consumption and the pursuit of happiness (2015) (264)
Motivated Reasoning and Performance on the was on Selection Task (2002) (238)
Commission, Omission, and Dissonance Reduction: Coping with Regret in the "Monty Hall" Problem (1995) (223)
Peering Into the Bias Blind Spot: People’s Assessments of Bias in Themselves and Others (2005) (210)
The Anchoring-and-Adjustment Heuristic the Adjustments Are Insufficient (2006) (203)
Heuristics and Biases: Introduction – Heuristics and Biases: Then and Now (2002) (199)
Are Adjustments Insufficient? (2004) (179)
Varieties of regret: A debate and partial resolution. (1998) (179)
The Mechanics of Motivated Reasoning (2016) (175)
Here's looking at me: the effect of memory perspective on assessments of personal change. (2005) (174)
Incidental environmental anchors (2008) (172)
Stigmatizing Materialism: On Stereotypes and Impressions of Materialistic and Experiential Pursuits (2010) (169)
The Cold Facts about the “Hot Hand” in Basketball (1989) (166)
The Spotlight Effect and the Illusion of Transparency (1999) (156)
Just Going Along: Nonconscious Priming and Conformity to Social Pressure (1999) (154)
Effect of temporal perspective on subjective confidence. (1993) (153)
Heuristics and Biases: List of Contributors (2002) (150)
Buyer's remorse or missed opportunity? Differential regrets for material and experiential purchases. (2012) (145)
Building a More Mobile America—One Income Quintile at a Time (2015) (145)
Do others judge us as harshly as we think? Overestimating the impact of our failures, shortcomings, and mishaps. (2001) (143)
Naive cynicism in everyday theories of responsibility assessment : On biased assumptions of bias (1999) (139)
The meaning of default options for potential organ donors (2012) (139)
Actions, Intentions, and Self-Assessment: The Road to Self-Enhancement Is Paved with Good Intentions (2004) (137)
Differential construal and the false consensus effect. (1990) (136)
Target and observer differences in the acceptance of questionable apologies. (2007) (134)
Effect of Temporal Perspective on Subjective Confidence (1993) (134)
"What, Me Worry?": Arousal, Misattribution, and the Effect of Temporal Distance on Confidence (1998) (127)
Why people are reluctant to tempt fate. (2008) (123)
Effect of memory perspective on retrospective causal attributions. (1989) (109)
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes--And How to Correct Them: Lessons From The New Science Of Behavioral Economics (1999) (109)
Biased evaluations of randomly determined gambling outcomes (1986) (109)
The illusion of transparency and the alleviation of speech anxiety (2003) (107)
Do people really believe they are above average (2008) (107)
Waiting for Merlot (2014) (104)
People's intuitions about intuitive insight and intuitive choice. (2010) (100)
The Perceiver as Perceived: Everyday Intuitions About the Correspondence Bias (1999) (98)
Another look at why people are reluctant to exchange lottery tickets. (2007) (91)
Mere presence and social facilitation: One more time (1986) (88)
The “Hot Hand”: Statistical Reality or Cognitive Illusion? (1989) (87)
Remembering and Regretting: The Zeigarnik Effect and the Cognitive Availability of Regrettable Actions and Inactions (1997) (80)
Putting adjustment back in the anchoring and adjustment heuristic. (2002) (78)
Empathy neglect: reconciling the spotlight effect and the correspondence bias. (2002) (78)
Moral masochism: on the connection between guilt and self-punishment. (2013) (75)
Some “Thing” to Talk About? Differential Story Utility From Experiential and Material Purchases (2015) (75)
When Less Is More: Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction Among Olympic Medalists (1995) (74)
Secondhand information and social judgment (1987) (73)
Causal focus and estimates of consensus: An examination of the false-consensus effect. (1983) (69)
Effect of Memory Perspective on Retrospective Causal Attributions (1989) (67)
Looked over or overlooked? Prescreening decisions and postinterview evaluations. (1998) (66)
We’ll Always Have Paris: The Hedonic Payoff from Experiential and Material Investments (2015) (65)
Regrets Of Action And Inaction Across Cultures (2003) (59)
When change in the self is mistaken for change in the world. (2003) (57)
The Spotlight Effect Revisited: Overestimating the Manifest Variability of Our Actions and Appearance (2002) (55)
Consumers’ pursuit of material and experiential purchases: A review (2019) (53)
Like goes with like: The role of representativeness in erroneous and pseudo-scientific beliefs. (2002) (52)
Failing to Act: Regrets of Terman's Geniuses (1995) (51)
One-Shot Illusory Correlations and Stereotype Formation (2007) (49)
The headwinds/tailwinds asymmetry: An availability bias in assessments of barriers and blessings. (2016) (49)
To do or to have, now or later? The preferred consumption profiles of material and experiential purchases (2016) (46)
Getting the Most for the Money: The Hedonic Return on Experiential and Material Purchases (2014) (43)
Inferring Attitudes From Mindwandering (2010) (39)
Research DialogueAnchoring unbound (2010) (39)
The Actor and the Experiencer: Divergent Patterns of Causal Attribution (1986) (38)
The dark side of intuition: aging and increases in nonoptimal intuitive decisions. (2013) (36)
Everyday egocentrism and everyday interpersonal problems. (1999) (36)
Generality and cultural variation in the experience of regret. (2014) (35)
Angry (or Disgusted), but Adjusting? The Effect of Specific Emotions on Adjustment From Self-Generated Anchors (2011) (34)
How should we think about Americans’ beliefs about economic mobility? (2018) (34)
Home Alone: Why People Believe Others’ Social Lives Are Richer Than Their Own (2017) (34)
The Illusion of Transparency in Negotiations (2003) (34)
Heuristics and Biases: The Hot Hand in Basketball: On the Misperception of Random Sequences (2002) (32)
Gift Cards and Mental Accounting: Green‐lighting Hedonic Spending (2014) (32)
Cultivating gratitude and giving through experiential consumption. (2016) (31)
Being All That You Can Be (2012) (27)
Intuitions about situational correction in self and others. (2003) (27)
Some counterfactual determinants of satisfaction and regret. (1995) (27)
The asymmetric connection between money and material vs. experiential purchases (2016) (26)
Conceptions of the Self and Others Across Time (2008) (25)
When Social Worlds Collide: Overconfidence in the Multiple Audience Problem (2000) (24)
Accentuating the positive: Eliciting generalized compliance from children through activity-oriented requests. (1982) (23)
Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations (2020) (23)
Understanding money's limits: People's beliefs about the income – Happiness correlation (2010) (21)
Questioning the “I” in Experience: Experiential Purchases Foster Social Connection (2014) (20)
The better-than-my-average effect: The relative impact of peak and average performances in assessments of the self and others (2012) (20)
Shallow Thoughts About the Self: The Automatic Components of Self-Assessment. (2005) (19)
Whatever Is Willed Will Be (2012) (19)
The Ideal Road Not Taken: The Self-Discrepancies Involved in People’s Most Enduring Regrets (2018) (18)
Effect of temporal focus on the recall of expectancy-consistent and expectancy-inconsistent information. (1993) (18)
The beach, the bikini, and the best buy: Replies to Dunn and Weidman, and to Schmitt, Brakus, and Zarantonello (2015) (18)
Judgmental Heuristics: A Historical Overview (2012) (16)
What Goes Up Apparently Needn't Come Down: Asymmetric Predictions of Ascent and Descent in Rankings (2015) (16)
The Heart and the Head: On Choosing Experiences Intuitively and Possessions Deliberatively (2017) (15)
Spending on doing promotes more moment-to-moment happiness than spending on having (2020) (14)
Critical Thinking in Psychology: Informal Logical Fallacies (2006) (13)
Judgment and Decision Making (2010) (13)
21. The Cold Facts about the "Hot Hand" in Basketball (2005) (8)
Delay, Doubt, and Decision (2010) (8)
The streaking star effect: Why people want superior performance by individuals to continue more than identical performance by groups. (2020) (8)
Is our absence as conspicuous as we think? Overestimating the salience and impact of one’s absence from a group (2003) (7)
Predicting Group Outcomes from Brief Exposures (2014) (7)
Sudden-Death Aversion: Avoiding Superior Options Because They Feel Riskier (2018) (7)
There must be more to life than this: The impact of highly-accessible exemplars on self-evaluation and discontent (2020) (6)
The tide that lifts all focal boats: Asymmetric predictions of ascent and descent in rankings (2016) (6)
“The ball don't lie”: How inequity aversion can undermine performance (2010) (6)
Talking About What You Did and What You Have: the Differential Story Utility of Experiential and Material Purchases (2013) (5)
Heuristics and Biases: Preface (2002) (4)
The perceived impact of tax and regulatory changes (2020) (3)
People are more tolerant of inequality when it is expressed in terms of individuals rather than groups at the top (2021) (3)
Intuitions about intuitive insight and intuitive choice (2008) (2)
Why Calling Attention to Success Seems to Invite Failure (2009) (2)
“Stigmatizing Materialism: on Stereotypes and Impressions of Materialistic Versus Experiential Consumers” (2009) (2)
The Wisest One in the Room (2017) (2)
Heuristics and Biases: References (2002) (1)
Heuristics and Biases: When Less Is More: Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among Olympic Medalists (2002) (1)
Causes and Consequences For the Belief in Tempting Fate (2009) (1)
Understanding People’s Fear of Tempting Fate (2018) (1)
Take It Easy: Removing Time Constraints Mitigates Choice Overload (2009) (1)
Paradoxes of gambling behaviour, by Willem A. Wagenaar. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1988 (1992) (1)
The Unbearable Lightness of Theory. (1991) (1)
The Illusion of Transparency in Negotiations Leaf (2003) (1)
The adman cometh. (1993) (1)
Social psychological research isn't negative, and its message fosters compassion, not cynicism (2004) (0)
Tilburg University Angry ( or disgusted ) , but adjusting ? The effect of specific emotions on adjustment from self-generated (2011) (0)
A Conversation with Thomas D. Gilovich (2016) (0)
Regret, Disappointment, and Guilt Scales (2015) (0)
Morality and Masochism: Feeling Guilt Leads to Physical Self-Punishment (2010) (0)
Temporal Asymmetry in Attributions to Will Measure (2015) (0)
Decisions about money (2011) (0)
Kahneman Introduction-Heuristics and Biases : Then and Now (0)
Differential Construal and the False Consensus Effect [ Attitudes and Social Cognition ] (2004) (0)
Mental Accounting and Gift Card Spending (2014) (0)
The Pursuit of Happiness in Trying Times [Video] (2018) (0)
Pessimistic assessments of ability in informal conversation (2023) (0)
Questionable Research Practices Scale (2017) (0)
The Bearable Lightness of Impact (2011) (0)
Self-Generated Anchors Angry ( or Disgusted ) , but Adjusting ? The Effect of Specific Emotions on Adjustment From (2011) (0)
Surprise! the Positive Impact of Uncertainty on the Evaluation of Experiential Purchases (2018) (0)
Perspectives on Choice (2017) (0)
A Conversation with Bob Frank (2016) (0)
Author ' s personal copy Do people really believe they are above average ? q (2008) (0)
Self-Perceived Expertise About the American Political Environment Measure (2017) (0)
Experiential Purchases Foster Social Connectedness (2013) (0)
O2. the Streaking Star Effect: Why People Want Individual Winning Streaks to Continue More Than Group Streaks (2018) (0)
Parent–Child Dynamics Measure (2017) (0)
Surprise! Purchase Type Determines Whether Expectation Disconfirmation Is Fun Or Upsetting. (2014) (0)

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