TIMOTHY D. WILSON is the Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, where he has received the All University Outstanding Teaching Award and the Distinguished Scientist Award. He is the author of Strangers to Ourselves, which was named by the New York Times Magazine as conveying one of the most influential ideas of 2002, and is the coauthor of the bestselling social psychology textbook Social Psychology, now in its seventh edition. Wilson has also published articles in Science and the New York Times, among other publications and journals. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Russell Sage Foundation, and in 2009, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.