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1 day ago · The study, “ The Hot Hand in Basketball: On the Misperception of Random Sequences,” was written in 1985 by eminent psychologists Thomas Gilovich, Robert Vallone, and Amos Tversky. They allegedly demonstrated through an analysis of basketball shooting data that the hot hand was a myth. Recently deceased Nobel laureate (and Tversky’s chief ...
May 29, 2024 · Thomas D. Gilovich. Cornell University. Psychologist; Educator. Area. Social and Behavioral Sciences. Specialty. Psychological Sciences. Elected. 2012. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Professor of Psychology.
May 22, 2024 · In seven varied experiments—with psychologists Thomas Mann of Harvard University and Thomas Gilovich of Cornell University—Kumar surveyed more than 1,400 participants about their feelings of...
5 days ago · In “Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes,” Gary Belsky and Thomas Gilovich describe sunk cost fallacy as “the primary reason most people would choose to risk traveling in a dangerous snowstorm if they had paid for a ticket to an important game or concert, while passing on the trip if they had been given the ticket for free.” You ...
May 21, 2024 · In seven varied experiments—with psychologists Thomas Mann of Harvard University and Thomas Gilovich of Cornell University—Kumar surveyed more than 1,400 participants about their feelings of...
May 16, 2024 · In his 2016 research, Thomas Gilovich, PhD, coined the phrase “headwinds/tailwinds asymmetry,” which he defines as bias in people’s assessments of the benefits they’ve enjoyed and the barriers they’ve faced. 7
May 11, 2024 · Our interview study with 17 migrant families highlights how the politics of remembrance, family dynamics, and postmemory shape the past stories of migrant families. We discuss how these findings inform the HCI literature on migration, design, and postcolonial computing.
