name: Daniel Todd Gilbert
birth_date: 1957-11-05 00:00:00
genres: Social Sciences
avg_rating: 3.83
ratings_count: 62812
about: Daniel Gilbert is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. His research with Tim Wilson on "affective forecasting" investigates how and how well people can make predictions about the emotional impact of future events.Dan has won numerous awards for his teaching and research—from the Guggenheim Fellowship to the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology. However, he says that his greatest accomplishment is that he appears just before Dizzie Gillespie on the list of Most Famous High School Dropouts.Dan's research has been covered by The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, Money, CNN, U.S. News &amp; World Report, The New Yorker, Scientific American, Op Daniel Gilbert is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. His research with Tim Wilson on "affective forecasting" investigates how and how well people can make predictions about the emotional impact of future events.Dan has won numerous awards for his teaching and research—from the Guggenheim Fellowship to the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology. However, he says that his greatest accomplishment is that he appears just before Dizzie Gillespie on the list of Most Famous High School Dropouts.Dan's research has been covered by The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, Money, CNN, U.S. News &amp; World Report, The New Yorker, Scientific American, Oprah Magazine, Psychology Today, and many others.He lives in Cambridge Massachusetts with his wife and a lack of pets. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. ...more