Meet the Authors
Thomas Gilovich is Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. His research deals with how people evaluate the evidence of their everyday experience to make judgments, form beliefs, and decide on courses of action, and how they sometimes misevaluate that evidence and make faulty judgments, form dubious beliefs, and embark on counterproductive courses of action. He is also interested in the emotional states that both influence and follow from people’s judgments. He is author of How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life, and with Gary Belsky, Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes—and How to Correct Them: Lessons from the New Science of Behavioral Economics. He co-edited, with Dale Griffin and Daniel Kahneman, Heuristic and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment.
Dacher Keltner is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He also co-directs the Center for the Development of Peace and Well-Being. His research focuses on the prosocial emotions, such as love, sympathy, and gratitude, and processes such as teasing and flirtation that enhance bonds. He has conducted studies in three areas of inquiry. A first looks at the determinants and effects of power, hierarchy, and social class. A second is concerned with the morality of everyday life, and how we negotiate moral truths in teasing, gossip, and other reputational matters. A third and primary focus is on the biological and evolutionary basis of the benevolent emotions, including compassion, awe, love, gratitude, and laughter and modesty.
Richard Nisbett is Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan and Senior Research Scientist at Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. He co-directs the University’s Culture and Cognition Program. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association and the William James Fellow Award of the American Psychological Society and is a member of the National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is author of The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . . and Why, and, with Dov Cohen, Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Violence in the South.
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