Thomas Gilovich

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Thomas Gilovich

Thomas D. Gilovich (* 1954 ) is an American psychologist . He is a professor at Cornell University .

Gilovich studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara ( BA , 1976) and at Stanford University ( Ph.D. , 1981).

In 2012 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2019 he received the Donald T. Campbell Award .

Gilovich's research interests are everyday judgment and decision-making , critical thinking, egocentrism , optimism , pessimism , satisfaction and remorse , and behavioral economics .

Books (selection)

  • with DW Griffin and D. Kahneman (eds.): The psychology of intuitive judgment: Heuristic and biases. Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-521-79260-6 .
  • with D. Keltner and RE Nisbett : Social psychology. 2nd Edition. WW Norton, 2010, ISBN 978-0-393-93258-4 .
  • How we know what isn't so: The fallibility of human reason in everyday life . Free Press, 1991, ISBN 0-02-911705-4 .
  • with G. Beslky: Why smart people make big money mistakes — and how to correct them: Lessons from the new science of behavioral economics. revised edition. Simon and Schuster, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4391-6336-8 . (German: The Lemming Principle: Why even clever people make serious mistakes when dealing with money and how to correct them. FinanzBook Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89879-280-6 )

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