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Thomas Gilovich 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 Thomas Gilovich sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 172 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Thomas Gilovich 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 Thomas Gilovich sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 79 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

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

    Thomas Gilovich

  • Heuristics and Biases: List of Contributors

    Thomas Gilovich;Dale Griffin;Daniel Kahneman

  • Does Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation

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

  • To Do or to Have? That Is the Question

    Leaf Van Boven;Thomas Gilovich

  • Perspective Taking as Egocentric Anchoring and Adjustment

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

  • The experience of regret: what, when, and why

    Thomas Gilovich;Victoria Husted Medvec

  • The Anchoring-and-Adjustment Heuristic Why the Adjustments Are Insufficient

    Nicholas Epley;Thomas Gilovich

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

    Thomas Gilovich

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

    Emily Pronin;Thomas Gilovich;Lee Ross

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

    Nicholas Epley;Thomas Gilovich

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

    Victoria Husted Medvec;Scott F. Madey;Thomas Gilovich

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

    Thomas Gilovich;Kenneth Savitsky;Victoria Husted Medvec

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

    Mark G. Frank;Thomas Gilovich

  • 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

  • Biased evaluation and persistence in gambling.

    Thomas Gilovich

  • The relative relativity of material and experiential purchases.

    Travis J. Carter;Thomas Gilovich

  • The temporal pattern to the experience of regret.

    Thomas Gilovich;Victoria Husted Medvec

  • 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

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

    Thomas Gilovich

  • Perspective Taking as Egocentric Anchoring and Adjustment

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

  • The Anchoring-and-Adjustment Heuristic the Adjustments Are Insufficient

    Nicholas Epley;Thomas Gilovich

Frequent Co-Authors

Leaf Van Boven
Leaf Van Boven University of Colorado Boulder
Nicholas Epley
Nicholas Epley University of Chicago
Dale Griffin
Dale Griffin University of British Columbia
Lee Ross
Lee Ross Stanford University
Marcel Zeelenberg
Marcel Zeelenberg Tilburg University
Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman Princeton University
Amos Tversky
Amos Tversky Stanford University
David A. Pizarro
David A. Pizarro Cornell University
Robert H. Frank
Robert H. Frank Cornell University
David Dunning
David Dunning University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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