Thomas Gilovich

Thomas Gilovich
Nationality	American
Fields	Psychology
Institutions	Cornell University
Alma mater	University of California, Santa Barbara Stanford University
Known for	Research in heuristics and cognitive biases
Influences	Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman, Lee Ross, Mark Lepper
Influenced	cognitive psychology, social psychology

Thomas Dashiff Gilovich is a professor of psychology at Cornell University who has done research in social psychology, decision making and behavioral economics, and has written popular books on these subjects. He has collaborated with Daniel Kahneman, Richard Nisbett, Lee Ross and Amos Tversky.

Gilovich earned his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara and his Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University in 1981. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

He is married to Karen Dashiff Gilovich, with whom he has two daughters, Ilana and Rebecca.

Notable contributions

• bias blind spot
• hot-hand fallacy
• clustering illusion
• self-handicapping
• spotlight effect
• regret
• anchoring
• egocentrism
• illusion of transparency
• experiential consumption
• construal

Books

• Gilovich, T., & Ross, L. (2015). "The wisest one in the room: How you can benefit from social psychology's most powerful insights." New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-7754-6
• Gilovich, T., Keltner, D., & Nisbett, R.E. "Social Psychology." New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-97875-3
• Gilovich, T., Griffin, D. W. & Kahneman, D. (Eds.). (2002). Heuristics and Biases : The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-79679-2
• Belsky, G., & Gilovich, T. (1999). Why smart people make big money mistakes-and how to correct them: Lessons from the new science of behavioral economics. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-85938-6
• Gilovich, T. (1991). How we know what isn't so: The fallibility of human reason in everyday life. New York: The Free Press. ISBN 0-02-911706-2. Summary.

See also

• Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology