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Tom Gilovich

Tom Gilovich

My research deals with how people evaluate the evidence of their everyday experience to make judgments, form beliefs, and decide on courses of action, and how they sometimes misevaluate that evidence and make faulty judgments, form dubious beliefs, and embark on counterproductive courses of action. I am also interested in the emotional states that both influence and follow from people's judgments.

Primary Interests:

  • Causal Attribution
  • Emotion, Mood, Affect
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Social Cognition

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Cultivating Gratitude in a Consumerist Society

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  • Cultivating Gratitude in a Consumerist Society


  • Extraordinary Claims (Think101x: The Science of Everyday Thinking)


  • Conversation with Daniel Kahneman (APA Convention Keynote, 2017)


  • The Headwinds/Tailwinds Asymmetry: An Availability Bias in Assessments of Barriers and Blessings


  • ScienceLives: Do What You Find Interesting (National Science Foundation)


  • Judgment, Decision Making, and Regrets (Cornell Research)


  • We Don't Need Social Media to Feel Bad About Ourselves (APA)


  • Applications of Social Psychology (WW Norton author interview)


  • Replication Debate in Social Psychology (WW Norton author interview)


  • On the Difference Between Wisdom and Intelligence, and Dealing With Bias


  • From Regret to Wisdom (Psychology University podcast)




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  • Judgment
  • Social Psychology
  • Statistics

Tom Gilovich
Department of Psychology
220 Uris Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853-7601
United States of America

  • Phone: (607) 255-6432
  • Fax: (607) 255-8433

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