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



Tim Wilson
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 is a member of the Executive Board of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, and he recently completed a term as Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition.


Books:

  • Aronson, E., Wilson, T. D., & Akert, R. M. (2007). Social psychology (6th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  • Wilson, T. D. (2002). Strangers to ourselves: Discovering the adaptive unconscious. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Journal Articles:

  • Dunn, E. W., Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2003). Location, location, location: The misprediction of satisfaction in housing lotteries. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 1421-1432.
  • Wilson, T. D. (2005). The message is the method: Celebrating and exporting the experimental approach. Psychological Inquiry, 16, 185-193.
  • Wilson, T. D., & Brekke, N. C. (1994). Mental contamination and mental correction: Unwanted influences on judgments and evaluations. Psychological Bulletin, 116, 117-142.
  • Wilson, T. D., Centerbar, D. B., Kermer, D. A., & Gilbert, D. T. (2005). The pleasures of uncertainty: Prolonging positive moods in ways people do not anticipate. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 5-21.
  • Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2005). Affective forecasting: Knowing what to want. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 131-134.
  • Wilson, T. D., Houston, C., Etling, K. M., & Brekke, N. (1996). A new look at anchoring effects: Basic anchoring and its antecedents. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 125, 387-402.
  • Wilson, T. D., & LaFleur, S. J. (1995). Knowing what you'll do: Effects of analyzing reasons on self-prediction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 21-35.
  • Wilson, T. D., Lindsey, S., & Schooler, T. (2000). A model of dual attitudes. Psychological Review, 107, 101-126.
  • Wilson, T. D., Meyers, J., & Gilbert, D. T. (2003). "How happy was I, anyway?" A retrospective impact bias. Social Cognition, 21, 407-432.
  • Wilson, T. D., Meyers, J. & Gilbert, D. T. (2001). Lessons from the past: Do people learn from experience that emotional reactions are short lived? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 1648-1661.
  • Wilson, T. D., Wheatley, T., Kurtz, J., Dunn, E., & Gilbert, D. T. (2004). When to fire: Anticipatory versus post-event reconstrual of uncontrollable events. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 340-351.

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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