Scientific Papers & Chapters (by topic)

Prospection, Affective Forecasting, & Hedonic Psychology

Gilbert, D. T., Pinel, E. C., Wilson, T. D., Blumberg, S. J., & Wheatley, T. (1998). Immune neglect: A source of durability bias in affective forecasting. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 617-638.

Wilson, T. D., Wheatley, T. P., Meyers, J. M., Gilbert, D. T., & Axsom, D. (2000). Focalism: A source of durability bias in affective forecasting. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 821-836.

Gilbert, D. T., Brown, R. P., Pinel, E. C., & Wilson, T. D. (2000). The illusion of external agency. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 690-700.

Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2000). Miswanting: Some problems in the forecasting of future affective states. In J. Forgas (Ed.), Thinking and feeling: The role of affect in social cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lieberman, M. D., Ochsner, K. N., Gilbert, D. T., & Schacter, D. L. (2001). Do amnesics exhibit cognitive dissonance reduction? The role of explicit memory and attention in attitude change. Psychological Science, 12, 135-140.

Wilson, T. D., Meyers, J., & Gilbert, D. T. (2001). Lessons from the past: Do people learn from experience that emotional reactions are short lived? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 1648-1661.

Gilbert, D. T., & Ebert, J. E. J. (2002). Decisions and revisions: The affective forecasting of changeable outcomes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 503-514.

Gilbert, D. T., Gill, M. J., & WIlson, T. D. (2002). The future is now: Temporal correction in affective forecasting. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 88, 430-444.

Gilbert, D. T., Pinel, E. C., Wilson, T. D., Blumberg, S. J., & Wheatley, T. P. (2002). Durability bias in affective forecasting. In Gilovich, T., Griffin, D., & Kahneman, D. (Eds.), Heuristics and biases: The psychology of intuitive judgment (pp. 292-312). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wilson, T. D., Gilbert, D. T., & Centerbar, D. B. (2002). Making sense: The causes of emotional evanescence. In J. Carillo & I. Brocas (Eds.), Economics and psychology (pp. 209-233). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gilbert, D. T., Driver-Linn, E., & Wilson, T. D. (2002). The trouble with Vronsky: Impact bias in the forecasting of future affective states. In L. F. Barrett & P. Salovey (Eds.), The wisdom in feeling: Psychological processes in emotional intelligence (pp. 114-143). New York: Guilford.

Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2003). Affective forecasting. In M. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology, Vol. 35 (pp. 345-411). New York: Elsevier.

Dunn, E. W., Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2003). Location, location, location: The misprediction of satisfaction in housing lotteries. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 1421-1432.

Wilson, T. D., Meyers, J., & Gilbert, D. T. (2003). "How happy was I, anyway?" A retrospective impact bias. Social Cognition, 21, 421-446 .

Gilbert, D. T., Lieberman, M. D., Morewedge, C. K., & Wilson, T. D. (2004). The peculiar longevity of things not so bad. Psychological Science, 15, 14-19.

Wilson, T. D., Wheatley, T., Kurtz, J., Dunn, E. W., & Gilbert, D. T. (2004). When to fire: Anticipatory versus post-event reconstrual of uncontrollable events. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1-12.

Gilbert, D. T., Morewedge, C. K., Risen, J. L., & Wilson, T. D. (2004). Looking forward to looking backward: The misprediction of regret. Psychological Science, 15, 346-350.

Wilson, T. D., Centerbar, D. B., Kermer, D. A., & Gilbert, D. T. (2005). The pleasures of uncertainty: Prolonging positive moods in ways people do not anticipate. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 5-21.

Wilson, T. D. & Gilbert, D. T. (2005). Affective forecasting: Knowing what to want. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 131-134.

Morewedge, C. K., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2005).The least likely of times: How remembering the past biases forecasts of the future. Psychological Science, 16, 626-630.

Kermer , D. A., Driver-Linn , E., Wilson , T. D., & Gilbert , D. T. (2006). Loss aversion Is an affective forecasting error. Psychological Science, 17, 649-653.

Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2007). Prospection: Experiencing the future. Science, 317, 1351-1354.

Kurtz, J. L., Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert. D. T. (2007). Quantity versus uncertainty: When winning one prize is better than winning two. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 979-985.

Morewedge, C. K., Gilbert, D. T., Keysar, B., Berokovits, M. J., & Wilson, T. D. (2007). Mispredicting the hedonic benefits of segregated gains. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136, 700-709.

Mallett, R. K., Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2008). Expect the unexpected: Failure to anticipate similarities when predicting the quality of an intergroup interaction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 265-277.

Caruso, E. M., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2008). A wrinkle in time: Asymmetric valuation of past and future events. Psychological Science, 19, 796-801.

Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2008). Explaining away: A model of affective adaptation. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3, 370-386.

Kassam, K. S., Gilbert, D. T., Boston, A., & Wilson, T. D. (2008). Future anhedonia and temporal discounting. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1533-1537.

Koo, M., Algoe, S. B., Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2008). It's a wonderful life: Mentally subtracting positive events improves people's affective states, contrary to their affective forecasts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 1217-1224.

Carlsmith, K. M., Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2008). The paradoxical consequences of revenge. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 1316-1324.

Bar-Anan, Y., Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2009). The feeling of uncertainty intensifies affective reactions. Emotion, 9, 123-127.

Gilbert, D. T., Killingsworth, M. A., Eyre, R. N., & Wilson, T. D. (2009). The surprising power of neighborly advice. Science, 323, 1617-1619.

Golub, S. A., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2009). Anticipating one's troubles: The costs and benefits of negative expectations. Emotion, 9, 277-281

Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2009). Why the brain talks to itself: Sources of error in emotional prediction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B., 364, 1335-1341.

Morewedge, C. M., Shu, L. L., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2009). Bad riddance or good rubbish? Ownership and not loss aversion causes the endowment effect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 947-951.

Ebert, J. E. J., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2009). Forecasting and backcasting: Predicting the impact of events on the future. Journal of Consumer Research, 36, 353-366.

Morewedge, C. K., Gilbert, D. T., Myrseth, K. O. R., Kassam, K. S., & Wilson, T. D. (2010). Consuming experience: Why affective forecasters overestimate comparative value. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,46, 986-992.

Mitchell, J. P., Schirmer, J., Ames, D. L., & Gilbert. D. T. (2010). Medial prefrontal cortex predicts intertemporal choice. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 1-10.

Killingsworth, M. A., & Gilbert, D. T. (2010). A wandering mind is an unhappy mind. Science, 330, 932.

Whitchurch, E. R., Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2011). He loves me, he loves me not: The effects of uncertainty on romantic attraction. Psychological Science, 22, 172-175.

Kassam, K. S., Morewedge, C. K., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2011). Winners love winning but losers love money. Psychological Science, 22, 602-606.

Dunn, E. W., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2011). If money doesn't make you happy then you probably aren't spending it right. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 21, 115-125.

Quoidbach, J., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2013). The end of history illusion. Science, 339, 96-98.

Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2013). The impact bias is alive and well. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 105, 740-748.

Hahn, C., Wilson, T. D., McRael, K., & Gilbert, D. T. (2013). "Show me the money": Vulnerability to gambling moderates the attractiveness of money versus suspense. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 1259-1267.

Wilson, T. D., Reinhard, D. A., Westgate, E. C., Gilbert, D. T. Ellerbeck, N., Hahn, C., Brown, C. L., & Shaked, A. (2014). Just think: The challenges of the disengaged mind. Science, 345, 75-77.

Cooney, G., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2014). The unforeseen costs of extraordinary experience. Psychological Science.

Wilson, T. D., Gilbert, D. T., Reinhard, D. A., Westgate, E. C., & Brown, C. L. (2014). Would you fund this movie? A reply to Fox et al. (2014). Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1428.

Wilson, T. D., Ndiaye, D. G., Hahn, C., & Gilbert, D. T. (2015). Still a thrill: Meaning making and the pleasures of uncertainty. In K. Markman, T. Proulx, & M. Lindberg (Eds.), The psychology of meaning (pp. 421-443). Washington, D.C.: The American Psychological Association.

Lee, M., Wilson, T. D., Eggleston, C. M., Gilbert, D. T., & Ku, X. (2015). "Just because you like it doesn"t mean I will too:' Cross-cultural similarities in ignoring others' opinions. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 18, 192-198.

Eggleston, C. M., Wilson, T. D., Lee, M., & Gilbert, D. T. (2015). Predicting what we will like: Asking a stranger can be as good as asking a friend. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 128, 1–10.

Burum, B. A., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2016). Becoming stranger: When future selves join the out-group. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 1132-1140.

Cooney, G., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2016). When fairness matters less than we expect. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 11168-11171.

Cooney, G., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2017). The novelty penalty: Why do people like talking about new experiences but hearing about old ones? Psychological Science, 28, 380-394.

Alahmadi, S., Buttrick, N. R., Gilbert, D. T., Hardin, A. M., Westgate, E. C, & Wilson, T. D.(2017). You can do it if you really try: The effects of motivation on thinking for pleasure. Motivation and Emotion, 41, 545-561.

Buttrick, N. R., Choi, H., Wilson, T. D., Oishi, S., Boker, S. M., Gilbert, D. T., Alper, S., Aveyard, M., Cheong, W., Colic, M. V., Dalgar, I., Dogulu, C., Karabati, S., Kim, E., Knezvic, G., Komiya, A., Lacle, C. O., Lage, C. A., Lazarevic, L. B., Lazarevic, D., Lins, S., Molina, M. B., Neto, F., Orlic, A., Petrovic, B., Sibaja, M. A., Fernandez, D. T., Vanpaemel, W., Voorspoels, W., & Wilks, D. C. (2019). Cross-cultural consistency and relativity in the enjoyment of thinking versus doing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 117, e71-e83.

Wilson, T. D., Westgate, E. C., Buttrick, N. R., & Gilbert, D. T. (2019). The mind is its own place: The difficulties and benefits of thinking for pleasure. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 175–221. New York: Elsevier Academic Press.

Quoidbach, J., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2020). Your life satisfaction will change more than you think: A comment on Harris and Busseri (2019). Journal of Research in Personality, 86.

Westgate, E. C., Wilson, T. D., Buttrick, N. R., Furrer, R. A., & Gilbert, D. T. (2021). What makes thinking for pleasure pleasurable? Emotion, 21, 981–989.

Raza, S., Westgate, E. C., Buttrick, N. R., Heintelman, S. J., Furrer, R. A., & Gilbert, D. T., Libby, L. K., & Wilson, T. D. (2022). A trade-off model of intentional thinking for pleasure. Emotion, 22(1), 115–128.

Zebhauser, P. T., Macchia, A., Gold, E., Salcedo, S., Burum, B., Alonso-Alonso, M., Gilbert, D. T., Pascual-Leone, A., Brem, A. K. (2022). Intranasal Oxytocin modulates decision-making depending on outcome predictability: A randomized within-subject controlled trial in healthy males. Biomedicines, 10, 3230.

Social Cognition and Social Interaction

Lord, C. G. & Gilbert, D. T. (1983). The "same-person" heuristic: An attributional procedure based on an assumption about person similarity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 43, 751-762.

Jones, E. E., Schwartz, J. & Gilbert, D. T. (1983/1984). The perception of moral expectancy violation: The role of expectancy source, Social Cognition, 2, 273-293.

Darley, J. M. & Gilbert, D. T. (1985). Social psychological aspects of environmental psychology. In G. Lindzey & E. Aronson (Eds.) The handbook of social psychology (3rd edition).Volume II. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley.

Gilbert, D. T., & Cooper. J. (1985). Social psychological strategies of self-deception. In M. Martin (Ed.), Self-deception and self-understanding: New essays in philosophy and psychology. Lawrence, KA: University of Kansas Press.

Gilbert, D. T., & Jones, E. E. (1986). Perceiver-induced constraint: Interpretations of self-generated reality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 269-280.

Gilbert, D. T., & Jones, E. E. (1986). Exemplification: The self-presentation of moral character. Journal of Personality, 54, 101-123.

Gilbert, D. T., Jones, E. E., & Pelham, B. W. (1987). Influence and inference: What the active perceiver overlooks. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 861-870.

Gilbert, D. T., & Krull, D. S. (1988). Seeing less and knowing more: The benefits of perceptual ignorance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54, 193-202.

Gilbert, D. T., Pelham, B. W., & Krull, D. S. (1988). On cognitive busyness: When person perceivers meet persons perceived. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54, 733-740.


Gilbert, D. T., Krull, D. S., & Pelham, B. W. (1988). Of thoughts unspoken: Social inference and the self-regulation of behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55, 685-694.

Gilbert, D. T., & Osborne, R. E. (1989). Thinking backward: Some curable and incurable consequences of cognitive busyness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 940-949.

Swann, W. B. Jr., Hixon, G. J., Stein-Seroussi, A., & Gilbert, D. T. (1990). The fleeting gleam of praise: Psychological processes underlying reactions to self-relevant information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59, 17-26.

Gilbert, D. T., & Hixon, J. G. (1991). The trouble of thinking: Activation and application of stereotypic beliefs. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 509-517.

Gilbert, D. T., McNulty, S. E., Giuliano, T. A., & Benson, J. E. (1992). Blurry words and fuzzy deeds: The attribution of obscure behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 62, 18-25.

Osborne, R. E., & Gilbert. D. T. (1992). The preoccupational hazards of social life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 62, 219-228.

Gilbert, D. T. (1994). Attribution and interpersonal perception. In A. Tesser (Ed.), Advanced social psychology. New York: McGraw Hill.

Gilbert, D. T., & Malone, P. S. (1995). The correspondence bias. Psychological Bulletin, 117, 21-38.

Gilbert, D. T., Giesler, R. B., & Morris, K. A. (1995). When comparisons arise. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 227-236.

Gilbert, D. T., & Silvera, D. S. (1996). Overhelping. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 678-690.

Gilbert, D. T. (1998). Ordinary personology. In D. T. Gilbert, S. T., Fiske, & G. Lindzey, (Eds.) The handbook of social psychology (4th edition). New York: McGraw Hill. <

Gilbert, D. T. (1998). Speeding with Ned: A personal view of the correspondence bias. In J. M. Darley & J. Cooper (Eds.), Attribution and social interaction: The legacy of E. E. Jones. Washington, DC: APA Press.

Gilbert, D. T. (1999). What the mind's not. In S. Chaiken & Y. Trope (Eds.), Dual process theories in social psychology. New York: Guilford.

Gilbert, D. T. (1999). Social cognition. In R. Wilson & F, Keil (Eds.), The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Gilbert, D. T., & Gill, M. J. (2000). The momentary realist. Psychological Science, 11, 394-398.

Gilbert, D. T. (2002). Inferential correction. In Gilovich, T., Griffin, D., & Kahneman, D. (Eds.), Heuristics and biases: The psychology of intuitive judgment (pp. 167-184). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lieberman, M. D., Gaunt, R., Gilbert, D. T., & Trope, Y. (2002). Reflexion and reflection: A social cognitive neuroscience approach to attributional inference. In M. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology, Vol. 34 (pp. 199-249). New York: Elsevier.

Gilbert, D. T., Pelham. B.W., & Krull, D. S. (2003). The psychology of good ideas. Psychological Inquiry, 14, 258-260.

Kassam, K. S., Gilbert, D. T., Swencionis, J. K, & Wilson, T. D. (2009). Misconceptions of memory: The Scooter Libby effect. Psychological Science, 20, 551-552.

Burum, B. A., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2016). Caught red-minded: Evidence-induced denial of mental transgressions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 844-852.

Mastroianni, A. M., Gilbert, D. T., Cooney, G., & Wilson, T. D. (2021). Do conversations end when people want them to? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118, e2011809118.

Levari, D. E., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2022). Tips from the top: Do the best performers really give the best advice? Psychological Science, 33, 685-698.

Hirschi, Q., Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2022). Speak up! Mistaken beliefs about how much to talk in conversations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Mastroianni, A. M., & Gilbert, D. T. (2023). The illusion of moral decline. Nature, 618, 782-789.

Belief & Credulity

Gilbert, D. T., Krull, D. S. & Malone, P. S. (1990). Unbelieving the unbelievable: Some problems in the rejection of false information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59, 601-613.

Gilbert, D. T. (1991). How mental systems believe. American Psychologist, 46, 107-119.

Gilbert, D. T. (1992). Assent of man: Mental representation and the control of belief. In D. M. Wegner & J. Pennebaker (Eds.), The handbook of mental control. New York: Prentice-Hall.

Gilbert, D. T., Tafarodi, R. W., & Malone, P. S. (1993). You can't not believe everything you read. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 221-233.
Wilson, T. D., Gilbert, D. T., & Wheatley, T. (1998). Protecting our minds: The role of lay beliefs. In V. Yzerbyt, G. Lories, & B. Dardenne (Eds.), Metacognition: Cognitive and social dimensions. New York: Sage.

Levari, D. E., Gilbert, D. T., Wilson, T. D., Sievers, B., Amodio, D. M., & Wheatley, T. (2018). Prevalence-induced concept change in human judgment. Science, 360, 1465-1467.

About Science

Wegner, D. M., & Gilbert, D. T. (2000). Social psychology: The science of human experience. In H. Bless & J. P. Forgas (Eds.), The message within: The role of subjective experience in social cognition and behavior. Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press.

Gilbert, D. T. (2002). Are psychology's tribes ready to form a nation? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6, 3.

Gilbert, D. T. (2016). Talking to humans: Is it a good idea? (Talk given at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, December 30, 2016, San Diego California).

Gilbert, D. T., King, G., Pettigrew, S., & Wilson, T. D. (2016). Comment on "Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science." Science, 351, 1037-a-1038-a.
Gilbert, D. T. (2022). Dear Vera, Chuck, and Dave. In Pillars of Social Psychology (S. Kassin, Ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 395-402.

About Ned Jones

Gilbert, D. T. (1998). Speeding with Ned: A personal view of the correspondence bias. In J. M. Darley & J. Cooper (Eds.), Attribution and social interaction: The legacy of E. E. Jones. Washington, DC: APA Press.

Gilbert, D. T. (1997). Edward Ellsworth Jones. In P. H. Marks (Ed.), Luminaries: Princeton faculty remembered. Lawrenceville, NJ: Princeton Academic Press.

Gilbert, D. T. (2000). Edward Ellsworth Jones. In A. E. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology. Washington, DC: APA Press.

Gilbert, D. T. (Ed.) (2003). The selected works of Edward E. Jones. New York: Wiley.

Gilbert, D. T. (2007). Edward Ellsworth Jones. In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2nd Edition).

Books

The Handbook of Social Psychology



Stumbling on happiness. (2006). New York: Knopf.

Psychology. New York: Worth.

Essays & Book Reviews

Gilbert, D. T. (2005). Four more years of happiness. The New York Times. January 20.

Gilbert, D. T. (2005). The vagaries of religious experience, Edge.org, September 27.

Gilbert, D. T. (2006). Shall I compare thee to a summer's sausage? Forbes.com. February 14.

Gilbert, D. T. (2006). I'm okay, you're biased. The New York Times. April 16.

Gilbert, D. T. (2006). The spice of life. National Public Radio's All Things Considered. May 12.

Gilbert, D. T. (2006). Does fatherhood make you happy? Time. June 19.

Gilbert, D. T. (2006). If only gay sex caused global warming. Los Angeles Times, July 2.

Gilbert, D. T. (2006). He who cast the first stone probably didn't. The New York Times, July 24.

Gilbert, D. T. (2006). The way I see it. Starbucks.

Gilbert, D. T., & Buckner, R. (2007). Time travel in the brain. Time.

Gilbert, D. T. (2007). Compassionate commercialism. The New York Times, March 25.

Gilbert, D. T. (2008). Review of "The Geography of Bliss" by Eric Weiner, The Washington Post.

Gilbert, D. T. (2009). What you don't know makes you nervous, The New York Times, May 21.

Gilbert, D. T. (2009). Times to remember, places to forget, The New York Times, December 31

Gilbert, D. T. (2010). Review of "Being Wrong" by Kathryn Schulz, The New York Times Book Review, July 23.

Gilbert, D. T. (2010). The weight at the plate, The New York Times, August 4.

Gilbert, D. T. (2010). Magic by numbers. The New York Times, October 17.

Gilbert, D. T. (2011). Buried by bad decisions. Nature, 474, 276-277.

Essays, Lectures, & Interviews About Climate Change

ESSAY: If only gay sex caused global warming. Los Angeles Times, 2006.

ESSAY: Buried by bad decisions. Nature, 2011.

LECTURE: It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (TEDx Academy, 2014, Athens, Greece)

INTERVIEW: Humans wired to respond to short term problems (National Public Radio, 2006)

INTERVIEW: Why climate change threats don't trigger an immediate response from human brains (National Public Radio, 2019)

Early Science Fiction Stories

Gilbert, D. T. (1979). Unfortunately the large number of alternate realities on hand does not permit us time for personal comment. Pandora, 1 (3), p. 24.

Gilbert, D. T. (1980). Visions of Diana. Amazing Stories, 27 (8), p. 44.

Gilbert, D. T. (1980). The Essence of Grunk. Questar, 2 (4), p. 46.

Gilbert, D. T. (1981). Zinsky's Vacation. Questar, 3 (2), p. 25.

Gilbert, D. T. (1982). Kokomu. In F. Saberhagen (Ed.), Pawn to Infinity. New York: Ace.

Gilbert, D. T. (1982). The Meat Box. In A. Ryan (Ed.), Perpetual Light. NewYork: Warner.

Gilbert, D. T. (1982). In the Land of the Unfunny. Oracle, 1 (1), p. 11.

Gilbert, D. T. (1983). Woman in the Designer Genes. In A. Davidson (Ed.), Magic for Sale. New York: Ace Books.

Gilbert, D. T. (1984). In the Specimen Jar. Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 8 (8), p. 117.

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University of Colorado at Denver, B.A., Psychology, 1981

Princeton University, Ph.D., Social Psychology, 1985

Harvard University, Honorary Master of Arts & Sciences, 1996

Bates College, Honorary Doctor of Letters, 2016

Yale University, Honorary Doctor of Social Science, 2021

Appointments

Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin, 1985-1990

Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin, 1990-1995

Professor, University of Texas at Austin, 1995-1996

Professor, Harvard University, 1996-2005

Harvard College Professor, Harvard University, 2005-2010

Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, 2013-present

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Academic

B.A. from University of Colorado at Denver, summa cum laude,1981

Outstanding Graduate Award, University of Colorado at Denver, 1981

Nell G. Fahrion Award for Excellence in Psychology, University of Colorado at Denver, 1981

Princeton University Merit Prize, 1981, 1982, 1983

Phi Beta Kappa, 1981

National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, 1981-84

Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University, 1984-85

National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award, 1991-96

American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, 1992

The Royal Society General Book Prize for Stumbling on Happiness, 2007

Diener Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology, Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology, 2008

Elected Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2008

Elected Fellow, Society of Experimental Psychologists, 2009

Massachusetts Psychological Association, Presidential Citation for This Emotional Life, 2010

Honorary Patron of the University Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin, 2013

Edgar Pierce Professorship, Harvard University, 2014

Honorary Doctor of Letters, Bates College, 2016

John Thibaut Award, University of North Carolina, 2017

Donald T. Campbell Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2017

William James Award, Association for Psychological Science, 2018

Honorary Doctor of Social Science, Yale University, 2021

Honorary Fellowships

Fellow, Society for Experimental Social Psychology, 1993

Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1991-92

Fellow, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 1996

Fellow, American Psychological Association, 1997

James McKeen Cattell Fellowship, 1999

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1999

American Philosophical Society Fellowship, 1999

Fellow, Association for Psychological Science, 2003

Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2008

Honorary Academic Lectures

Donald O. Hebb Lecture, McGill University, 1999

Edward E. Jones Lecture, Princeton University, 2003

Forry and Micken Lecture, Amherst College 2005

Association for Psychological Science "Bring the Family" Address, 2007

Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture, Princeton University, 2007

Quinn Lecture, University of British Columbia, 2007

Fritz Heider Lecture, University of Kansas, 2007

Donald Fiske Lecture, University of Chicago, 2008

Royal Society Public Lecture, London, 2008

Carl Hovland Lecture, Yale University, 2008

Santa Fe Institute Community Lecture, 2008

Science and Math Lecture, North Dakota State University, 2009

John T. Lanzetta Lecture, Dartmouth University, 2009

Opening Keynote Address, American Psychological Association, 2010

The Sally and Forrest Hoglund Lecture, Center for Brain Health, 2011

Ghiselli Invited Lecture, University of California, Berkeley, 2013

Anderson Lecture, University of Aberdeen, 2014

Majlis Lecture, Court of the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2016

John Thibaut Award Lecture, University of North Carolina, 2017

L. Starling Reid Lecture, University of Virginia, 2017

Convocation Speaker, Elon University, 2017

Peter Miller Musser Endowed Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, 2017

Oppenheimer Lecture, Lake Forest College, 2018

Distinguished Alumni Lecture, University of Colorado at Denver, 2018

Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture, University of Colorado at Denver, 2023

Major Non-Academic Public Lectures

TED, 2004 & 2014

TED Global (Oxford, England), 2005

Pop!Tech (Camford, ME, USA), 2007

City of Ideas, (Pueblo, Mexico), 2009 & 2011

Presidential Conference (Jerusalem, Israel), 2011

Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, NM, USA), 2009

Aspen Ideas Festival (Aspen, CO, USA), 2009

The Nantucket Project (Nantucket, MA, USA), 2012

TEDx Academy (Athens, Greece), 2014

TEDx Central Intelligence Agency (Washington, DC, USA), 2014

The Government Summit (Dubai, UAE), 2015

Caixaforum (Madrid, Spain), 2015

The Majilis Lecture (Abu Dhabi, UAE), 2016

The Copernicus Festival (Krakow, Poland), 2018

World Minds (Geneva, Switzerland), 2018

The Speaker Series (Amman, Jordan), 2019

Davos (Davos, Switzerland), 2020

Doctoral Students

Alan Swinkles 1989

Brett Pelham 1989

Randall Osborne 1989

Douglas Krull 1990

J. Gregory Hixon 1991

Patrick Malone 1993

David Silvera 1994

Matthew Lieberman 1998

Nancy Puccinelli 1999

Jane (Jenkins) Ebert 2000

Erin Driver-Linn 2001

Jeremy Blumenthal 2002

Sarit Golub 2004

Mark Stalnaker, 2004

Rebecca (Norwick) Eyre 2005

Carey Morewedge 2006

Eugene Caruso 2007

Karim Kassam 2010

Lisa Shu, 2012

Matthew Killingsworth, 2012

Bethany Burum, 2014

Gus Cooney, 2017

David Levari, 2018

Adam Mastroianni, 2021