Tim Wilson
- SPN Mentor
Tim Wilson did his undergraduate work at Williams College and Hampshire College and received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Currently Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, he has published numerous articles in the areas of introspection, attitude change, self-knowledge, and affective forecasting, as well as the book "Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious."
His research has received the support of the National Science Foundation and the National Institute for Mental Health. He has been associate editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and a member of the Social and Groups Processes Review Committee at the National Institute of Mental Health. 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. Professor Wilson has taught the Introduction to Social Psychology course at the University of Virginia for more than twenty years. He was recently awarded an All University Outstanding Teaching Award.
Primary Interests:
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Self and Identity
- Social Cognition
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18:26 Redirect with Tim Wilson (RSA)
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45:14 Strangers to Ourselves: The Limits of Self-Knowledge
(APS William James Fellow Award Address)
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1:26 How to Get Rid of Negative Thoughts (Insider Tech)
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3:48 The Adaptive Unconscious (New York Academy of Sciences)
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28:59 Story-Editing (The Lab @DC)
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43:56 Edit Your Story, Change Your Life (The Weekend University)
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25:35 Just Think: The Challenges and Benefits of the Mind at Play
Donald T. Campbell Award Address, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2014
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20:46 Just Think: The Challenges and Benefits of a Disengaged Mind
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1:54 The Power of Editing Your Personal Story (genconnectU)
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1:07 Why We Should Write Down Our Problems (genconnectU)
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1:27 How We Get People to Change (genconnectU)
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52:51 Enhance the Effectiveness of Learning Design
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45:25 How to "Redirect"
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25:46 How to Change the Stories You Tell About Yourself
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57:00 Psychological Change (The Future of Education podcast)
Books:
- Aronson, E., Wilson, T. D., Sommers, S. R., Gould, E. P., & Lewis, N., Jr. (2023). Social psychology (11th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Pearson.
- Wilson, T. D. (2002). Strangers to ourselves: Discovering the adaptive unconscious. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Journal Articles:
- Carlsmith, K. M., Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2008). The paradoxical consequences of revenge. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95(6), 1316-1324.
- Caruso, E. M., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2008). A wrinkle in time: Asymmetric valuation of past and future events. Psychological Science, 19(8), 796-801.
- Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2007). Prospection: Experiencing the future. Science, 317, 1351-1354.
- Koo, M., Algoe, S. B., Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2008). It's a wonderful life: Mentally subtracting positive events improves people's affective states, contrary to their affective forecasts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95(5), 1217-1224.
- Mallett, R. K., Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2008). Expect the unexpected: Failure to anticipate similarities leads to an intergroup forecasting error. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 265-277.
- Wilson, T. D. (2009). Know thyself. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4(4), 384-389.
- Wilson, T. D. (2006). The power of social psychological interventions. Science, 313, 1251-1252.
- Wilson, T. D., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2008). The unseen mind. Science, 321, 1046-1047.
- Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2008). Explaining away: A model of affective adaptation. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 372-388.
- Wilson, T. D., Lindsey, S., & Schooler, T. (2000). A model of dual attitudes. Psychological Review, 107, 101-126.
Other Publications:
- Wilson, T. D., & Dunn, E. (2004). Self-knowledge: Its limits, value, and potential for improvement. Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 493-518.
- Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2003). Affective forecasting. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 35, pp. 345-411). San Diego: Academic Press.
Courses Taught:
- Introduction to Social Psychology
- Proseminar: Social Psychology
- Self-Insight
- Self-Knowledge and the Adaptive Unconscious
Tim Wilson
Department of Psychology
P.O. Box 400400
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4400
United States of America
- Phone: (434) 924-0674
- Fax: (434) 982-4766