Daniel Gilbert

Daniel Todd Gilbert is the author of the New York Times bestseller Stumbling on Happiness and the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He is a social psychologist who is known for his research (with Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia) on affective forecasting, with a special emphasis on cognitive biases such as the impact bias.

Gilbert has won numerous awards for his teaching and research, including the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology.

He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.