Daniel Gilbert (psychologist)
American social psychologist and writer
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Life and career
Gilbert dropped out of high school at age 15, and spent a year hitchhiking across the United States. He later earned his GED and received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of Colorado Denver in 1981 and a Ph.D. in social psychology from Princeton University in 1985. From 1985 to 1996, he was a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin. Since 1996, he has worked at Harvard University where he is currently the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology.
He and his wife, Marilynn Oliphant, live in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gilbert has one son and four grandchildren.
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