Distinguished Teaching Award at Cornell University Personal life Thomas Gilovich is married to Karen Dashiff Gilovich, with whom he has two daughters, Ilana and Rebecca. Gilovich stated in an interview that the best part about being a scientist is going to work every day asking "what do I want to do today," and that the best quality of a scientist is knowing how to respond to failure. In addition, he credits Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman for getting him interested in the field of social psychology. References External links Faculty page at Cornell Page at the Social Psychology Network Cornell University faculty Social psychologists 1954 births Living people American skeptics American people of Serbian descent Critics of alternative medicine Critics of parapsychology Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences University of California, Santa Barbara alumni Stanford University alumni