Timothy Wilson

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Timothy Wilson is affiliated with the following schools: University of Michigan, University of Virginia, Harvard University

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Timothy Wilson

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#239

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#348

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#164

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According to Wikipedia, Timothy DeCamp Wilson is an American social psychologist and writer. He is the Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia and teaches public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He is known for his research on self-knowledge and the influence of the unconscious mind on decision-making, preferences and behavior. He is the author of two popular books on psychology, Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious and Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change.

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Timothy Wilson's Published Works

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Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes. (1977) (10528)
A model of dual attitudes. (2000) (2092)
The halo effect: Evidence for unconscious alteration of judgments. (1977) (1670)
Affective Forecasting (2005) (1436)
Immune neglect: a source of durability bias in affective forecasting. (1998) (1372)
Thinking too much: introspection can reduce the quality of preferences and decisions. (1991) (1339)
Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious (2002) (1259)
Mental contamination and mental correction: unwanted influences on judgments and evaluations. (1994) (1118)
Prospection: Experiencing the Future (2007) (1003)
A new look at anchoring effects: basic anchoring and its antecedents. (1996) (730)
Focalism: a source of durability bias in affective forecasting. (2000) (644)
Experimentation in social psychology. (1998) (585)
Introspecting about Reasons can Reduce Post-Choice Satisfaction (1993) (569)
Self-knowledge: its limits, value, and potential for improvement. (2004) (510)
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)
Introspection, Attitude Change, and Attitude-Behavior Consistency: the Disruptive Effects of Explaining Why we Feel the Way we Do (1989) (378)
Attitudes as temporary constructions (1992) (349)
If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right (2011) (341)
Just think: The challenges of the disengaged mind (2014) (331)
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)
Improving the academic performance of college freshmen: Attribution therapy revisited. (1982) (293)
Insensitivity to sample bias: Generalizing from atypical cases (1980) (291)
Preferences as expectation-driven inferences: effects of affective expectations on affective experience. (1989) (259)
The feeling of uncertainty intensifies affective reactions. (2009) (249)
Improving the performance of college freshmen with attributional techniques. (1985) (240)
Wise Interventions: Psychological Remedies for Social and Personal Problems (2018) (239)
A Wrinkle in Time (2008) (232)
THE ROLE OF AFFECTIVE EXPECTATIONS IN SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE AND DECISION-MAKING (1994) (224)
The accuracy of verbal reports about the effects of stimuli on evaluations and behavior (1978) (219)
Miswanting: Some Problems in the Forecasting of Future Affective States (2000) (213)
The paradoxical consequences of revenge. (2008) (197)
The Proper Protocol: Validity and Completeness of Verbal Reports (1994) (196)
Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change (2011) (193)
The End of History Illusion (2013) (188)
The disruptive effects of explaining attitudes: The moderating effect of knowledge about the attitude object (1989) (169)
Expect the unexpected: failure to anticipate similarities leads to an intergroup forecasting error. (2008) (163)
Boring Thoughts and Bored Minds: The MAC Model of Boredom and Cognitive Engagement (2018) (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)
Effects of analyzing reasons on attitude–behavior consistency. (1984) (144)
Effects of introspecting about reasons: inferring attitudes from accessible thoughts. (1995) (139)
Why the brain talks to itself: sources of error in emotional prediction (2009) (132)
Social Psychology: The Heart and the Mind (1992) (131)
Effects of introspection on attitude-behavior consistency: Analyzing reasons versus focusing on feelings (1986) (131)
The Least Likely of Times (2005) (131)
The trouble with Vronsky: Impact bias in the forecasting of future affective states. (2002) (129)
Mental contamination and the debiasing problem. (2002) (125)
Strangers to Ourselves (2004) (117)
Improving the academic performance of college students with brief attributional interventions. (2002) (116)
The Art of Laboratory Experimentation (2010) (113)
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)
Knowing what you'll do: effects of analyzing reasons on self-prediction. (1995) (94)
The Surprising Power of Neighborly Advice (2009) (90)
Why Do I Love Thee?: Effects of Repeated Introspections about a Dating Relationship on Attitudes toward the Relationship (1993) (84)
The impact bias is alive and well. (2013) (77)
Quantity versus uncertainty: When winning one prize is better than winning two (2007) (72)
The illusion of external agency. (2000) (68)
Anticipating one's troubles: the costs and benefits of negative expectations. (2009) (68)
Judging the predictors of one's own mood: Accuracy and the use of shared theories (1982) (68)
Future anhedonia and time discounting (2008) (64)
Awareness and self-perception: Verbal reports on internal states. (1981) (63)
Handbook of self-knowledge (2012) (63)
Protecting our minds: The role of lay beliefs. (1998) (62)
When to Fire: Anticipatory Versus Postevent Reconstrual of Uncontrollable Events (2004) (62)
Effects of analyzing reasons on attitude change: the moderating role of attitude accessibility (1993) (61)
When the Stakes are High: A Limit to the Illusion-of-Control Effect (1990) (61)
The Unseen Mind (2008) (59)
Effects of Script Availability on Social Behavior (1982) (56)
Consuming experience: Why affective forecasters overestimate comparative value (2010) (56)
Increasing positive intergroup contact (2010) (55)
Prevalence-induced concept change in human judgment (2018) (55)
The halo effect revisited: Forewarned is not forearmed ☆ (1981) (54)
433-454 Attitude Strength , Attitude Stability , and the Effects of Analyzing Reasons (2014) (51)
“He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not . . . ” (2011) (50)
Knowing When To Ask Introspection and the Adaptive Unconscious (2003) (47)
Inaccurate self-knowledge formation as a result of automatic behavior (2010) (46)
Scientists' Evaluations of Research: the Biasing Effects of the Importance of the Topic (1993) (44)
11. Consciousness, introspection, and the adaptive unconscious (2010) (40)
The Power of Social Psychological Interventions (2006) (38)
Heuristics and Biases: Durability Bias in Affective Forecasting (2002) (36)
Mispredicting the hedonic benefits of segregated gains. (2007) (34)
The Unforeseen Costs of Extraordinary Experience (2014) (34)
Know Thyself (2009) (33)
New directions in social psychological interventions to improve academic achievement (2016) (32)
Misconceptions of Memory (2009) (29)
Increasing intrinsic interest with superfluous extrinsic constraints. (1982) (26)
Immune Neglect: A Source of Durability (1998) (25)
Choose your poison : Effects of lay beliefs about mental processes on attitude change (1998) (25)
Winners Love Winning and Losers Love Money (2011) (25)
Conserving Energy by Inducing People to Drive Less (2011) (24)
Redirect: Changing the Stories We Live By (2011) (20)
Effects of Self-Reflection on Attitudes and Consumer Decisions (1990) (19)
With a Little Help for Our Thoughts: Making It Easier to Think for Pleasure (2017) (19)
TARGET ARTICLE: The Message Is the Method: Celebrating and Exporting the Experimental Approach (2005) (18)
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)
Intuition is not evidence: Prescriptions for behavioral interventions from social psychology (2016) (13)
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)
Study guide, Social psychology, fourth edition, Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert (2002) (11)
The Novelty Penalty: Why Do People Like Talking About New Experiences but Hearing About Old Ones? (2017) (10)
Reflections on conscious reflection: Mechanisms of impairment by reasons analysis (2008) (10)
“I'll try the veggie burger”: Increasing purchases of sustainable foods with information about sustainability and taste (2020) (9)
“Show Me the Money” (2013) (9)
Cross-cultural consistency and relativity in the enjoyment of thinking versus doing. (2019) (9)
Social psychology : media and research update (2004) (7)
Still a thrill: Meaning making and the pleasures of uncertainty. (2013) (7)
Social psychology [Aronson, 2004] (2004) (6)
Becoming stranger: When future selves join the out-group. (2016) (6)
The Disruptive Effects of Self-Reflection: Implications For Survey Research (1990) (5)
What is social psychology? The construal principle. (2022) (3)
Behavior. The power of social psychological interventions. (2006) (3)
How We Feel about the Deal (2011) (3)
Previews, Premotions, and Predictions (2011) (3)
Consciousness: Limited but consequential (1991) (3)
The Construction of Preference: Introspecting About Reasons Can Reduce Post-Choice Satisfaction (2006) (2)
REPLY TO FRANCIS (2014) (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)
Would you fund this movie? A reply to Fox et al. (2014) (2014) (1)
No Crisis but No Time for Complacency (2019) (1)
Tips From the Top: Do the Best Performers Really Give the Best Advice? (2022) (1)
Future anhedonia and time discounting q (2008) (1)
A trade-off model of intentional thinking for pleasure. (2021) (0)
Sense-making under uncertainty: The relationship between implicit and explicit measures: (633942013-453) (2005) (0)
Study Guide for Social Psychology (2013) (0)
and Losers Love Money (2011) (0)
What makes thinking for pleasure pleasurable? (2020) (0)
Cross-Cultural Thinking Enjoyment (2015) (0)
Do People Enjoy Thinking? Intentional Reverie is Real but Rare (2015) (0)
The Mind In Its Own Place: The Difficulties and Benefits of Thinking for Pleasure (2019) (0)
Intentional enjoyable thought requires mental control (2016) (0)
Consuming Experiences Shift Standards Through Attentional Collapse (2008) (0)
Speak Up! Mistaken Beliefs About How Much to Talk in Conversations. (2022) (0)
A Trade-Off Model of Intentional Thinking for Pleasure (2021) (0)
The pain of doing nothing: preferring negative stimulation to boredom (2014) (0)
Deliberate Reverie Studies (2014) (0)
The Misprediction of Regret (2004) (0)
You can do it if you really try: The effects of motivation on thinking for pleasure (2017) (0)

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