Dr. Tim Wilson did his undergraduate work at Williams College and Hampshire College and obtained his PhD from the University of Michigan. Presently Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, he has published quite a few articles in the areas of introspection, attitude change, self-knowledge, and effective forecasting, in addition to a recent book, Redirect: The Shocking New Science of Psychological Change. His research has received the support of the National Institute for Mental Health and the National Science Foundation. He has been elected twice to the Executive Board of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology and is a Fellow in the American Psychological Society and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. In 2001 he was awarded the University of Virginia All-University Outstanding Teaching Award, and in 2010 was given the University of Virginia Distinguished Scientist Award.He was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. In 2015 he got the William James Fellows Award from the Association for Psychological Science. Wilson has taught the Introduction to Social Psychology course at the University of Virginia for more than thirty years.