Experts
Dan Gilbert
Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
Gilbert would like to interview my great, great, great granddaughter. Read More
Gilbert would build an irrational Walden. Read More
Dan Gilbert says technology could make us happier if we used it in the right ways. Read More
An age of believing our eyes, rather than our elders. Read More
We don't have everything we want, but we sure have a lot, says Dan Gilbert. Read More
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. Read More
Interesting things happen when two sides of the brain duke it out. Read More
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. Read More
Science is the worst way of knowing except for all the other ways of knowing. Read More
Kant is the foundation for modern psychology, Gilbert says. Read More
Scientific psychology from science fiction. Read More
Simply put, good science is creative, says Dan Gilbert. Read More
Dan Gilbert's creative process involves a lot of puzzling and puzzling and puzzling. Read More
Gilbert looks forward to answers to questions we haven't even asked yet. Read More
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 and what they won't like. Read More
Daniel Gilbert wandered into psychology. Read More
The city that teaches probability. Read More
Would you want to pay for it today? Read More
Dan Gilbert implores us to take care of the environment. Read More
Harvard happiness guru Dan Gilbert delivers his pessimistic forecast. Read More
About Dan Gilbert
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.