13 Facts About Thomas Gilovich

Thomas Dashiff Gilovich was born on January 16,1954 and is an American psychologist who is the Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology at Cornell University.

Thomas Gilovich has conducted research in social psychology, decision making, and behavioral economics, and has written popular books on these subjects.

Thomas Gilovich is a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

Thomas Gilovich is best known for his research in heuristics and biases in the field of social psychology.

The focus of Thomas Gilovich's work is reflected in two influential texts, Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment and Social Psychology, both of which are used as textbooks in academic courses in psychology and social psychology throughout the USA.

Thomas Gilovich condensed his academic research in judgement and decision making into a popular book, How We Know What Isn't So.

Thomas Gilovich has contributed to an understanding of bias blind spot, or the tendency to recognize biases in other people, but not in ourselves.

Thomas Gilovich was an early author in the clustering illusion, which is closely related to the "hot hand" fallacy, and is the tendency to see "clusters" of data in a random sequence of data as nonrandom.

Thomas Gilovich has continued to emphasize that people tend to regret the things they don't do more than the things they did.

Thomas Gilovich has stated that the strategy is most common in sports and undergraduate academics, but that it often backfires.

Thomas Gilovich has written a popular book condensing his academic research in the field, and which touches on many of the topics in How We Know What Isn't So, The Wisest One in the Room: How You Can Benefit from Social Psychology's Most Powerful Insights.

Thomas Gilovich explained that the implication is that experiential purchases lead to more gratitude and thus to more pro-social behavior.

Thomas Gilovich is married to Karen Dashiff Gilovich, with whom he has two daughters, Ilana and Rebecca.