Daniel T. Gilbert

Quotes

"Dangerous" does not mean exciting or bold; it means likely to cause great harm. The most dangerous idea is the only dangerous idea: The idea that ideas can be dangerous.
p. 42
“The benefit of knowledge is that it makes the world more predictable, but the cost is that a predictable world sometimes seems less delicious, less exciting, less poignant.”
Daniel Gilbert, Timothy Wilson, David Centerbar, & Deborah Kermer, The Pleasures

Books by Daniel T. Gilbert in the order they were published, from Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol (1993) to Psicologia Generale (2018).

Authors readers of Daniel T. Gilbert often like, from our AI-written notes

Timothy D. WilsonFrequent collaborator of Gilbert on affective forecasting and self-knowledge; his book Strangers to Ourselves covers similar ground on how little people know about their own minds.
Daniel KahnemanKnown for research on judgment and decision-making errors; Thinking, Fast and Slow suits readers who enjoyed Gilbert's account of mental biases.
Jonathan HaidtWrites accessible social psychology about happiness and moral psychology, in The Happiness Hypothesis.
Martin SeligmanWrites about happiness and well-being from a positive psychology perspective, in Authentic Happiness.
Barry SchwartzWrites accessible psychology about how choice and abundance affect well-being, in The Paradox of Choice.
Dan ArielyWrites popular books on irrational behavior and decision-making, which appeal to readers of Gilbert's more popular work.