Daniel T. Gilbert

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Daniel T. Gilbert by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-25 Updated 2026-11-05
A social psychologist who tested how cognitive load affects social attribution. Experiments required observers to judge another person while occupied with an additional task. Their results motivated a distinction between forming an initial characterization and correcting it for situational constraints: an explanation may depend on the processing resources available to the observer.[ref]
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Portrait of Daniel T. Gilbert
. Daniel Gilbert; CC BY-SA 4.0. Source.

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