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Daniel T. Gilbert

Daniel T. Gilbert

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
67
Citations
55161
World Ranking
2531
National Ranking
1464

Daniel T. Gilbert publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Daniel T. Gilbert sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 706+

This scientist: 123 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 706 publications or more.

Daniel T. Gilbert D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Daniel T. Gilbert sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

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

  • A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind

    Matthew A Killingsworth;Daniel Todd Gilbert

  • The Correspondence Bias

    Daniel T. Gilbert;Patrick S. Malone

  • Stumbling on Happiness

    Daniel Todd Gilbert

  • How mental systems believe.

    Daniel T. Gilbert

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

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

  • The trouble of thinking: Activation and application of stereotypic beliefs.

    Daniel T. Gilbert;J. Gregory Hixon

  • On cognitive busyness: When person perceivers meet persons perceived.

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

  • Prospection: Experiencing the Future

    Daniel T. Gilbert;Timothy D. Wilson

  • Affective Forecasting Knowing What to Want

    Timothy D. Wilson;Daniel T. Gilbert

  • Focalism: a source of durability bias in affective forecasting.

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

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

    Daniel T. Gilbert

  • Unbelieving the Unbelievable: Some problems in the rejection of false information

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

  • When comparisons arise.

    D T Gilbert;R B Giesler;K A Morris

  • You can't not believe everything you read.

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

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

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

  • Just think: The challenges of the disengaged mind

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Explaining Away A Model of Affective Adaptation

    Timothy D. Wilson;Daniel T. Gilbert

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy D. Wilson
Timothy D. Wilson University of Virginia
Daniel M. Wegner
Daniel M. Wegner Harvard University
Daniel L. Schacter
Daniel L. Schacter Harvard University
Thalia Wheatley
Thalia Wheatley Dartmouth College
Brett W. Pelham
Brett W. Pelham University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Patrick S. Malone
Patrick S. Malone Sapienza University of Rome
Matthew D. Lieberman
Matthew D. Lieberman University of California, Los Angeles
Elizabeth W. Dunn
Elizabeth W. Dunn University of British Columbia
Susan T. Fiske
Susan T. Fiske Princeton University
Michael Gill
Michael Gill Trinity College Dublin

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