Daniel Gilbert (psychologist)
Daniel Todd Gilbert ( born November 5, 1957) is an American professor of psychology at Harvard University.
Life
Gilbert 1981 he received a B. A. in Psychology from the University of Colorado Denver in 1985 and a Ph.D. in social psychology from Princeton University. He worked from 1985 to 1995 professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Since 1996, Gilbert Professor at Harvard University.
Services, sectors,
Gilbert's research interests are social psychology, predictions, perception and "faith."
Stumble font on Happiness
In 2006 he published the New York Times bestseller on Happiness stumble (English Stumbling on Happiness ). The book has been translated into 20 languages and won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books in 2007. Gilbert describes in this book personal predictions and expectations with respect to happiness, lose by errors of perception and cognitive distortions as strong of accuracy that people often wrong decisions. Three factors play a role:
- Ideas have real elements from the outside and add unrealistic elements, people whose but are rarely aware.
- Future and the past are similar to the present to ideas more than in reality.
- Ignore ideas that things feel different than expected when they happen. In particular, a psychological immune system leads to things perceived to be less bad than expected.
Gilbert derives from the recommendation, the experiences of other people in their own predictions and decision-making processes involved, and to rely less on his own ideas. However, he did not expect that many readers will follow this advice, because it is contrary to the culture.