2026 Daniel T. Gilbert: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	67	2531	2317	1464	1310	123	55161

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Current World Ranking

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Current National Ranking

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Psychology

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55161

Overview

Daniel T. Gilbert is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant number of publications contributing to the subfields of social psychology, applied psychology, sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, and general decision sciences.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics, including behavioral health and interventions, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, death anxiety and social exclusion, optimism, hope, and well-being, social and intergroup psychology, decision-making and behavioral economics, and the psychology of social influence.

Recent publications by Daniel T. Gilbert include:

Do conversations end when people want them to? (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
The illusion of moral decline (2023, Nature)
Tips From the Top: Do the Best Performers Really Give the Best Advice? (2022, Psychological Science)
Speak Up! Mistaken Beliefs About How Much to Talk in Conversations (2022, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin)
Intranasal Oxytocin Modulates Decision-Making Depending on Outcome Predictability-A Randomized Within-Subject Controlled Trial in Healthy Males (2022, Biomedicines)

Frequent coauthors with whom Daniel T. Gilbert has collaborated include:

Timothy D. Wilson
Adam Mastroianni
Rémy A. Furrer
David Levari
Paul Theo Zebhauser

Some of the most common publication venues where their work appears are:

Emotion
Nature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Psychological Science
Biomedicines

Best Publications

Handbook of social psychology

Susan T. Fiske;Daniel T. Gilbert;Gardner Lindzey

7032
Citations
A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind

Matthew A Killingsworth;Daniel Todd Gilbert

3588
Citations
The Correspondence Bias

Daniel T. Gilbert;Patrick S. Malone

3050
Citations
Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Todd Gilbert

2772
Citations
How mental systems believe.

Daniel T. Gilbert

2422
Citations
Immune neglect: A source of durability bias in affective forecasting.

Daniel T. Gilbert;Elizabeth C. Pinel;Timothy D. Wilson;Stephen J. Blumberg

2188
Citations
The trouble of thinking: Activation and application of stereotypic beliefs.

Daniel T. Gilbert;J. Gregory Hixon

2154
Citations
On cognitive busyness: When person perceivers meet persons perceived.

Daniel T. Gilbert;Brett W. Pelham;Douglas S. Krull

1840
Citations
Prospection: Experiencing the Future

Daniel T. Gilbert;Timothy D. Wilson

1685
Citations
Affective Forecasting Knowing What to Want

Timothy D. Wilson;Daniel T. Gilbert

1511
Citations
Focalism: a source of durability bias in affective forecasting.

Timothy D. Wilson;Thalia Wheatley;Jonathan M. Meyers;Daniel T. Gilbert

1113
Citations
Thinking lightly about others: Automatic components of the social inference process.

Daniel T. Gilbert

987
Citations
Unbelieving the Unbelievable: Some problems in the rejection of false information

Daniel T. Gilbert;Douglas S. Krull;Patrick S. Malone

941
Citations
When comparisons arise.

D T Gilbert;R B Giesler;K A Morris

903
Citations
You can't not believe everything you read.

Daniel T. Gilbert;Romin W. Tafarodi;Patrick S. Malone

806
Citations
Reflexion and reflection: A social cognitive neuroscience approach to attributional inference

Matthew D. Lieberman;Ruth Gaunt;Daniel T. Gilbert;Yaacov Trope

769
Citations
Just think: The challenges of the disengaged mind

Timothy D. Wilson;David A. Reinhard;Erin C. Westgate;Daniel T. Gilbert

710
Citations
The pleasures of uncertainty: Prolonging positive moods in ways people do not anticipate

Timothy D. Wilson;David B. Centerbar;Deborah A. Kermer;Daniel T. Gilbert

674
Citations
If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right

Elizabeth W. Dunn;Daniel T. Gilbert;Timothy D. Wilson

666
Citations
Explaining Away A Model of Affective Adaptation

Timothy D. Wilson;Daniel T. Gilbert

666
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy D. Wilson University of Virginia

Daniel M. Wegner Harvard University

Daniel L. Schacter Harvard University

Thalia Wheatley Dartmouth College

Brett W. Pelham University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Patrick S. Malone Sapienza University of Rome

Matthew D. Lieberman University of California, Los Angeles

Elizabeth W. Dunn University of British Columbia

Susan T. Fiske Princeton University

Michael Gill Trinity College Dublin

External Links

Personal website of Daniel T. Gilbert Google Scholar page

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