2026 Thomas Gilovich: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	79	1479	1321	883	768	172	40830

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - Donald T. Campbell Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2003 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Thomas Gilovich is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research primarily within the field of Medicine, with a focus on critical care and related areas. Their work spans several subfields including Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Epidemiology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Molecular Biology, and Social Psychology.

The scholar's research addresses a variety of topics, with a particular emphasis on:

Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
Hyperglycemia and glycemic control in critically ill and hospitalized patients
Congenital Heart Disease Studies
Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
Congenital heart defects research

Thomas Gilovich has published articles in a range of scientific venues, with frequent contributions in the following journals:

Frontiers in Pediatrics
Critical Care Medicine
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Gilovich include:

"Prenatal Repair of Myelomeningocele and School-age Functional Outcomes," 2020, published in PEDIATRICS
"Guided Bronchoscopy for the Evaluation of Pulmonary Lesions," 2023, CHEST Journal
"Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations," 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
"Spending on doing promotes more moment-to-moment happiness than spending on having," 2020, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
"Association of Acute Respiratory Failure in Early Childhood With Long-term Neurocognitive Outcomes," 2022, JAMA

Collaboration appears frequently with several co-authors who have worked with Gilovich on multiple occasions. Notable collaborators include Allison Thomas, Diva D. De León, Alexis Topjian, Sarah U. Morton, and Ami Norris-Brilliant.

Throughout their career, Thomas Gilovich has been recognized by several professional organizations. Awards and honors include:

Donald T. Campbell Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2019
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2012
Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), 2003

Best Publications

Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment

Thomas Gilovich;Dale W. Griffin;Daniel Kahneman

4851
Citations
The Hot Hand in Basketball: On the Misperception of Random Sequences

Thomas Gilovich

2320
Citations
Heuristics and Biases: List of Contributors

Thomas Gilovich;Dale Griffin;Daniel Kahneman

2182
Citations
Does Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation

Robert H. Frank;Thomas Gilovich;Dennis T. Regan

1892
Citations
To Do or to Have? That Is the Question

Leaf Van Boven;Thomas Gilovich

1791
Citations
Perspective Taking as Egocentric Anchoring and Adjustment

Nicholas Epley;Boaz Keysar;Leaf Van Boven;Thomas Gilovich

1585
Citations
The experience of regret: what, when, and why

Thomas Gilovich;Victoria Husted Medvec

1560
Citations
The Anchoring-and-Adjustment Heuristic Why the Adjustments Are Insufficient

Nicholas Epley;Thomas Gilovich

1307
Citations
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

Thomas Gilovich

1291
Citations
Objectivity in the eye of the beholder: divergent perceptions of bias in self versus others.

Emily Pronin;Thomas Gilovich;Lee Ross

1157
Citations
Putting Adjustment Back in the Anchoring and Adjustment Heuristic: Differential Processing of Self-Generated and Experimenter-Provided Anchors

Nicholas Epley;Thomas Gilovich

948
Citations
When Less Is More: Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among Olympic Medalists

Victoria Husted Medvec;Scott F. Madey;Thomas Gilovich

854
Citations
The illusion of transparency: Biased assessments of others' ability to read one's emotional states.

Thomas Gilovich;Kenneth Savitsky;Victoria Husted Medvec

838
Citations
The dark side of self- and social perception: Black uniforms and aggression in professional sports.

Mark G. Frank;Thomas Gilovich

745
Citations
The spotlight effect in social judgment: An egocentric bias in estimates of the salience of one's own actions and appearance.

Thomas Gilovich;Victoria Husted Medvec;Kenneth Savitsky

730
Citations
Biased evaluation and persistence in gambling.

Thomas Gilovich

620
Citations
The relative relativity of material and experiential purchases.

Travis J. Carter;Thomas Gilovich

605
Citations
The temporal pattern to the experience of regret.

Thomas Gilovich;Victoria Husted Medvec

604
Citations
I am what I do, not what I have: the differential centrality of experiential and material purchases to the self.

Travis J. Carter;Thomas Gilovich

552
Citations
Seeing the past in the present: The effect of associations to familiar events on judgments and decisions.

Thomas Gilovich

530
Citations
Perspective Taking as Egocentric Anchoring and Adjustment

Nicholas Epley;Boaz Keysar;Thomas Gilovich;Leaf Van Boven

233
Citations
The Anchoring-and-Adjustment Heuristic the Adjustments Are Insufficient

Nicholas Epley;Thomas Gilovich

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas Epley University of Chicago

Leaf Van Boven University of Colorado Boulder

Dale Griffin University of British Columbia

Lee Ross Stanford University

Daniel Kahneman Princeton University

Marcel Zeelenberg Tilburg University

Amos Tversky Stanford University

David A. Pizarro Cornell University

David Dunning University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Seger M. Breugelmans Tilburg University

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