Timothy Wilson
| Timothy D. Wilson | |
|---|---|
| Pen name | Timothy Wilson |
| Occupation | Professor of Psychology, researcher and writer |
| Language | English |
| Genres | Psychology |
| Subjects | Social psychology, self-knowledge and affective forecasting |
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www.people.virginia.edu/~tdw/ | |
Timothy D. Wilson is the Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He is a cognitive psychologist who researches the influence of the unconscious mind on decision-making, preferences and behavior.
Career
Wilson has published Strangers to Ourselves, and co-authored Social Psychology an introductory textbook on social psychology. The textbook has been translated into Italian, Polish, Chinese, German, Russian, and Serbian, and "Strangers to Ourselves" has been translated into Dutch and Japanese, with Chinese and German editions forthcoming.
Wilson is best known for his research on the adaptive unconscious, self-knowledge, and affective forecasting. With Richard Nisbett, Wilson authored one of Psychology's most cited papers "Telling more than we can know – verbal reports on mental processes" that demonstrated the difficulty humans have in introspecting on their own mental processes (Psychological Review, 1977, cited 2731 times as of May 22, 2007 according to ISI Web of Knowledge). His longtime collaborator is Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University.
His research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. In 2001 he received an All-University Outstanding Teaching Award from the University of Virginia. In 2009, he was named as a fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his wife, Deirdre Smith. He has two children, Christopher and Leigh.
Bibliography
- Wilson, Timothy (2002). Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious. Cambridge: Belknap Press. ISBN 0-674-00936-3.
- Wilson, Timothy (2011). Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-05188-8.
See also
References
- Cook, Gareth (13 September 2011). "How to Improve Your Life with Story Editing". Scientific American Mind Matters. Retrieved 2011-09-13.
- Freeman, Mark (14 September 2011). "Rewriting the stories we tell ourselves". New Scientist CultureLab. Retrieved 2011-09-14.