Tim Wilson

Institution University of Virginia Current Position Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology Highest Degree Ph.D. in Psychology from University of Michigan, 1977 Research Interests Attitudes Emotion Judgment/Decision Making Self/Identity Social Cognition Laboratory Home Page Wilson Laboratory Group Courses Taught Introduction to Social Psychology Proseminar: Social Psychology Self-Insight Self-Knowledge and the Adaptive Unconscious   Tim Wilson Department of Psychology P.O. Box 400400 University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4400 U.S.A. Home Page Phone: (434) 924-0674 Fax: (434) 982-4766 Professor Wilson is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society and has won numerous awards, including the All-University Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Virginia, 2001. He served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition. Books: Aronson, E., Wilson, T. D., & Akert, R. M. (2010). Social psychology (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Wilson, T. D. (2002). Strangers to ourselves: Discovering the adaptive unconscious. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Journal Articles: Carlsmith, K. M., Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (in press). The paradoxical consequences of revenge. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Caruso, E. M., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (in press). A wrinkle in time: Asymmetric valuation of past and future events. Psychological Science. Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2007). Prospection: Experiencing the future. Science, 317, 1351-1354. Koo, M., Algoe, S. B., Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (in press). It's a wonderful life: Mentally subtracting positive events improves people's affective states, contrary to their affective forecasts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Mallett, R. K., Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2008). Expect the unexpected: Failure to anticipate similarities leads to an intergroup forecasting error. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 265-277. Wilson, T. D. (in press). Know thyself. Perspectives on Psychological Science. Wilson, T. D. (2006). The power of social psychological interventions. Science, 313, 1251-1252. Wilson, T. D., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2008). The unseen mind. Science, 321, 1046-1047. Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2008). Explaining away: A model of affective adaptation. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 372-388. Wilson, T. D., Lindsey, S., & Schooler, T. (2000). A model of dual attitudes. Psychological Review, 107, 101-126. Other Publications: Wilson, T. D., & Dunn, E. (2004). Self-knowledge: Its limits, value, and potential for improvement. Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 493-518. Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2003). Affective forecasting. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 35, pp. 345-411). San Diego: Academic Press.

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