Timothy D. Wilson

Timothy DeCamp Wilson is an American social psychologist and writer who is the Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, where he also teaches public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He earned his bachelor's degree at Hampshire College and his master's and doctorate at the University of Michigan, and taught at Duke University before joining Virginia in 1979. He is known for research on self-knowledge, the adaptive unconscious, and affective forecasting, the study of how people predict their own future feelings, often carried out with his long-time collaborator Daniel Gilbert. With Richard Nisbett he wrote the widely cited 1977 paper on the limits of introspection, Telling more than we can know. He wrote the popular books Strangers to Ourselves and Redirect, and co-wrote a social psychology textbook now in many languages. Honours include fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Donald T. Campbell Award.