to indicate the age of the oldest person they knew to illustrate the recent increase in life expectancy. In another, Gilbert started a chain-reaction and set a Guinness World Record by toppling a domino to illustrate the power of compound interest. In a third, people put magnets on walls marked "Past" and "Future" to illustrate the optimism bias. Books Scholarly articles Gilbert has also collaborated with other scholars on articles published in academic journals like Psychological Science, Social Cognition, and Current Directions in Psychological Science. Awards and honors Gilbert has won numerous awards for his teaching, including the Harvard College Professorship and the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize. He has also won awards for his research, including the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology. In 2008 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Gilbert was awarded an honorary degree from Bates College, in Lewiston, Maine on May 29, 2016. In 2019, he received the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science for his contributions to social psychology. See also Affective forecasting Region-beta paradox References External links 1957 births Living people 21st-century American psychologists Social psychologists Princeton University alumni Harvard University faculty University of Colorado Denver alumni Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 20th-century American psychologists