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
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Extraordinary Claims (Think101x: The Science of Everyday Thinking)
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Conversation with Daniel Kahneman (APA Convention Keynote, 2017)
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The Headwinds/Tailwinds Asymmetry: An Availability Bias in Assessments of Barriers and Blessings
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ScienceLives: Do What You Find Interesting (National Science Foundation)
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Judgment, Decision Making, and Regrets (Cornell Research)
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We Don't Need Social Media to Feel Bad About Ourselves (APA)
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Applications of Social Psychology (WW Norton author interview)
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Replication Debate in Social Psychology (WW Norton author interview)
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On the Difference Between Wisdom and Intelligence, and Dealing With Bias
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From Regret to Wisdom (Psychology University podcast)
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Books:
- Belsky, G., & Gilovich, T. (2009). Why smart people make big money mistakes and how to correct them: Lessons from the life-changing science of behavioral economics. New York: Simon and Schuster.
- Gilovich, T. (1991). How we know what isn't so: The fallibility of human reason in everyday life. New York: The Free Press.
- Gilovich, T., Griffin, D. W., & Kahneman, D. (2002). Heuristics and biases: The psychology of intuitive judgment. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Gilovich, T., Keltner, D., Chen, S., & Nisbett, R. (2023). Social psychology (6th ed.). New York: W. W. Norton.
- Gilovich, T., & Ross, L. (2015). The wisest one in the room: How you can benefit from social psychology's most powerful insights. New York: Free Press.
Journal Articles:
- Epley, N., & Gilovich, T. (2001). Putting adjustment back in the anchoring and adjustment heuristic: Differential processing of self-generated and experimenter-provided anchors. Psychological Science, 12, 391-396.
- Epley, N., Savitsky, K., & Gilovich, T. (2002). Empathy neglect: Reconciling the spotlight effect and the correspondence bias. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 300-312.
- Frank, M. G., & Gilovich, T. (1988). The dark side of self- and social perception: Black uniforms and aggression in professional sports. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54, 74-85.
- Gilovich, T. (1981). Seeing the past in the present: The effect of associations to familiar events on judgments and decisions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 40, 797-808.
- Gilovich, T., & Medvec, V. H. (1995). The experience of regret: What, when, and why. Psychological Review, 102, 379-395.
- Gilovich, T., Medvec, V. H., & Savitsky, K. (2000). The spotlight effect in social judgment: An egocentric bias in estimates of the salience of one’s own actions and appearance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 211-222.
- Gilovich, T., Savitsky, K., & Medvec, V. H. (1998). The illusion of transparency: Biased assessments of others’ ability to read one's emotional states. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 332-346.
- Gilovich, T., Vallone, R., & Tversky, A. (1985). The hot hand in basketball: On the misperception of random sequences. Cognitive Psychology, 17, 295-314.
- Libby, L. K., Eibach, R. P., & Gilovich, T. (2005). Here's looking at me: The effect of memory perspective on assessments of personal change. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 50-62.
- Pronin, E., Gilovich, T., & Ross, L. (2004). Objectivity in the eye of the beholder: Divergent perceptions of bias in self versus others. Psychological Review, 111, 781-799.
- Van Boven, L., & Gilovich, T. (2003). To do or to have? That is the question. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 1193-1202.
Courses Taught:
- 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