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Expertise

Judgment and decision making, happiness and wellbeing; experiential and material consumption

Current Research Interest

How basic processes of judgment can give rise to non-optimal decisions and how they can lead people to experience self-doubt and resentment—and suppress gratitude and appreciation.

Distinction

Provost Award for Distinguished Scholarship
Society for Personality and Social Psychology Nalini Ambady Award for Mentoring Excellence
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Russell Distinguished Teaching Award

Selected Publication

Davidai, Shai, and Thomas Gilovich. “The Headwinds/Tailwinds Asymmetry: An Availability Bias in Assessments of Barriers and Blessings.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 111, no.6 (2016): 835-851.

Gilovich, Thomas, and Lee Ross. The Wisest One in the Room: How You Can Benefit from Social Psychology’s Most Powerful Insights. New York: W.W. Norton, 2015.

Cornell Research Website Article

Intriguing Human Behavior