Timothy Wilson

For other people with the same name, see Tim Wilson (disambiguation).

Timothy D. Wilson
Pen name	Timothy Wilson
Occupation	Professor of Psychology, researcher and writer
Language	English
Genre	Psychology
Subject	Social psychology, self-knowledge and affective forecasting
Website
www.people.virginia.edu/~tdw/

Timothy D. Wilson is the Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia and teaches public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He is a social 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.

Articles in journals

• Wilson, Timothy D.; Reinhard, David A.; Westgate, Erin C.; Gilbert, Daniel T.; Ellerbeck, Nicole; Hahn, Cheryl; Brown, Casey L.; Shaked, Adi (4 July 2014). "Just think: The challenges of the disengaged mind". Science. 345 (6192). American Association for the Advancement of Science: 75–77. doi:10.1126/science.1250830. Archived from the original on 29 December 2015. Retrieved 2015-12-29.

See also

• Cognitive bias
• Introspection illusion
• Region-beta paradox
• Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology

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.

External links

• University Webpage of Timothy Wilson
• Timothy D. Wilson on Google Scholar