Dan Gilbert

Dan Gilbert

Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

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 Dizzy 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 & World Report, The New Yorker, Scientific American, Oprah Magazine, Psychology Today, and many others.

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Gilbert would like to interview my great, great, great granddaughter.
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Dan Gilbert says technology could make us happier if we used it in the right ways.
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An age of believing our eyes, rather than our elders.
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We don’t have everything we want, but we sure have a lot, says Dan Gilbert.
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Dan Gilbert says the environment should be the most pressing issue because of its urgency and gay marriage, precisely because it is a non-issue.
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Interesting things happen when two sides of the brain duke it out.