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2006:

  1. A conversation with guest host Harold Varmus and psychologist Daniel Gilbert
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Daniel Todd Gilbert is the author of the New York Times bestseller “Stumbling on Happiness” and the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He is a social psychologist who is known for his research (with Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia) on affective forecasting, with a special emphasis on cognitive biases such as 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.

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