Dr. Daniel Gilbert is an Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. After attending the Community College of Denver and earning his B.A. from the University of Colorado, Dan went on to get his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He taught at the University of Texas, Austin, and in 1996,  joined the faculty of Harvard University.

Dr. Gilbert has received the Diener Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology, the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, and has won teaching awards that include the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize and the Harvard College Professorship. Dan’s research focuses on how and how well people think about their emotional reactions to future events. He is the author of the international bestseller Stumbling on Happiness, which won the Royal Society’s General Prize for best popular science book of the year, and he is the co-writer and host of the famous PBS television series, This Emotional Life.