Thomas D. Gilovich Cornell University, USA

Thomas Gilovich is the Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology at Cornell University and co-director of the Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision Research.  He received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of California at Santa Barbara and his PhD in Psychology from Stanford University. 

 

Dr. Gilovich specializes in the study of everyday judgment and reasoning.  This research interest has led him to study how gamblers selectively remember their past performance, how decision makers are influenced by irrelevant analogies, how people come to have the types of regrets that they do, why people are reluctant to “tempt fate,” how people’s egocentrism makes it hard for them to accurately assess how they are seen by others, why people get more enduring satisfaction from their experiential purchases than their material purchases, and why people can find it so easy to be resentful and so hard to be grateful.

 

In addition to his articles in scientific journals, Dr. Gilovich has written How We Know What Isn’t So (Free Press), Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes (Simon and Schuster, with Gary Belsky), Social Psychology (W.W. Norton, with Dacher Keltner, Serena Chen, and Richard Nisbett), and The Wisest One in the Room (Free Press, with Lee Ross), and he co-edited (with Dale Griffin and Daniel Kahneman) Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment (Cambridge University Press).

 

Dr. Gilovich is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.