Daniel Tod Gilbert is the author of Stumbling on Happiness and a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He is a social psychologist who is known worldwide for his research in the field of affective forecasting and cognitive biases such as the empathy gap and the impact bias.

Gilbert has won numerous awards for his teaching and research, including the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology. His scientific work has been covered by The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, Money, CNN, U.S. News & World Report, The New Yorker, Scientific American, O, The Oprah Magazine, Psychology Today, and others. His short stories have appeared in Amazing Stories and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, as well as other magazines and anthologies.

He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

External links

• www.stumblingonhappiness.com
• Publisher's website for Stumbling on Happiness
• Daniel Gilbert's Lab at Harvard
• Interview with Daniel Gilbert from SXSWi 2006

American psychologists