Daniel Gilbert (psychologist)

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Daniel Gilbert

Daniel Todd Gilbert (born November 5, 1957 ) is an American professor of psychology at Harvard University .

Life

Gilbert received a BA in Psychology from the University of Colorado Denver in 1981 and a Ph.D. in social psychology from Princeton University . From 1985 to 1995 he was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin . Gilbert has been a professor at Harvard University since 1996 .

Services, fields of work

Gilbert's fields of research are social psychology , prediction, perception and " belief ".

Scripture stumble into happiness

In 2006 he published the New York Times - bestselling Stumbling on Happiness ( English Stumbling on Happiness ). The book was translated into 20 languages and was awarded the Royal Society Prize for Science Books in 2007. Gilbert describes in this book personal predictions and expectations in terms of happiness caused by errors of perception and cognitive distortions as much loss of accuracy that people often make wrong decisions. Three factors play a role:

  • Imaginations leave out real elements and add unreal elements, which people are rarely aware of.
  • The future and the past resemble the present more in imagination than in reality.
  • Ignoring ideas that things will feel different than expected when they happen. In particular, a psychological immune system makes things feel less bad than expected.

Gilbert derived the recommendation from this to include the experiences of other people in your own predictions and decision-making processes, and to rely less on your own ideas. However, he doesn't expect many readers to follow this advice as it goes against culture.

Study If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right

Together with the social psychologists Elizabeth W. Dunn and Timothy D. Wilson, Gilbert has published a study on the relationship between spending and happiness in the Journal of Consumer Psychology , which relates aspects of his satisfaction research to specific phenomena and derives advice from them. These recommendations include, for example, preferring the acquisition of experiences to the purchase of material goods or delaying the enjoyment of acquired objects. The discussion of Gilbert's eight pieces of advice, however, also suggests a number of nuances and a stronger reflection of the empirical approach.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right . Archived from the original on July 22, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 13, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wjh.harvard.edu
  2. ↑ Eight Ways to Become a Happier Consumer. . Retrieved July 13, 2014.
  3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q1dgn_C0AU
personal data
SURNAME Gilbert, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gilbert, Daniel Todd (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1957