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.

6 min
Gilbert discusses the nature of happiness and his work in affective forecasting, which is the process by which people look into their future and make predictions about what they’ll like […]
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Daniel Gilbert wandered into psychology.
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Would you want to pay for it today?
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Dan Gilbert implores us to take care of the environment.
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Harvard happiness guru Dan Gilbert delivers his pessimistic forecast.
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Gilbert wonders which issues will still matter in a hundred years.