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Daniel Gilbert: A Brief Biography

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Daniel Gilbert was born on November 5, 1957. Surprisingly, he didn’t aspire to be a Psychologist. In fact, when he dropped out of high school, at the age of 19, he wanted to become a Science Fiction writer. After several years of hitchhiking across America Daniel decided to go to community college and become a Science Fiction writer, but the only class left was Introduction to Psychology. Subsequently, he went to the University of Colorado Denver where he received his BA in Psychology in 1981. Daniel went on to get his PhD in Social Psychology from Princeton University in 1985. After graduation Daniel taught Psychology at the University of Texas in Austin, until 1996. He then taught at Harvard University, where he spent the rest of his teaching

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