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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Belief in something we absolutely can’t see, for which there’s no evidence, cuts against the grain of what it means to be a scientist to me.
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Science is the worst way of knowing except for all the other ways of knowing.
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Kant is the foundation for modern psychology, Gilbert says.
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Scientific psychology from science fiction.
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Simply put, good science is creative, says Dan Gilbert.
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Dan Gilbert’s creative process involves a lot of puzzling and puzzling and puzzling.
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Gilbert looks forward to answers to questions we haven’t even asked yet.