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Daniel Gilbert (psychologist)

Gilbert has also collaborated with other scholars on articles published in academic journals like Psychological Science, Social Cognition, and Current Directions in Psychological Science. In 2008, he co-authored "A Wrinkle in Time: Asymmetric Valuation of Past and Future Events" in Psychological Science, which included Gilbert's studies conducted with Eugene M. Caruso and Timothy D. Wilson that illustrated that humans value future events more than past events. In the same journal, Gilbert also contributed to "The Least Likely of Times: How Remembering the Past Biases Forecasts of the Future" in 2005, which included studies that demonstrated that people rely on memories of past events when predicting and thinking about their futures. The study also concluded that people primarily rely on memorable but unique and atypical life events to make these sort of predictions about their futures. In addition, Gilbert wrote "'How Happy Was I, Anyway?' A Retrospective Impact Bias" with Timothy D. Wilson and Jay Meyers in Social Cognition in 2003. The article included the scholars' study that found that humans believe their futures have more of a direct effect on their emotions and mood than future events actually do. Gilbert also co-authored "Affective Forecasting: Knowing What to Want" with Timothy D. Wilson in 2005 in Current Directions in Psychological Science. In this piece, the two scholars studied how humans make all life choices with a lens that leads them to consider how that decision would impact their future happiness. Gilbert and Wilson call this tendency to base decisions off of their impact on eventual feelings "affective forecasts." The study also took into account impact bias, or when people miscalculate how much or how little a future event will affect one's levels of happiness. However, the two could not definitively claim whether or not these affective forecasts had a positive impact on human lives in practice.