By The Invisible Gorilla, on June 12th, 2010
Most of our blog posts lately have been related to the release of The Invisible Gorilla, and our traveling for book promotion has kept me from doing more science-oriented blogging. (Chris will soon be posting some links to new reviews, interviews, and other writing we’ve done.) Although we still have a lot of […]
By Daniel Simons, on June 5th, 2010
Chris and I are really excited that our book, The Invisible Gorilla, got a nice review in the New York Times Book Review. The review, written by Paul Bloom and titled “What we miss” will be in this Sunday’s paper (June 6). You can read it online now.
By Christopher Chabris, on June 3rd, 2010
Dan and I have a new op-ed in the Seattle Times about the effectiveness of laws requiring drivers to use hands-free phones. The state of Washington has a new hands-free mandate that goes into effect on June 10th. We argue that these laws are not likely to solve the problem they are aimed at, because the […]
By Daniel Simons, on June 2nd, 2010
Chris and I will be doing a number of interviews and book signings over the next few weeks. Here are a few of the upcoming events:
June 2 — San Francisco — I will be interviewed on KVON-AM for “Late Mornings with Jeff Schectman” from 9:00-9:30am PST
June 2 — San Francisco — I will […]
By Christopher Chabris, on June 1st, 2010
Dan and I have a long-ish article based on material from The Invisible Gorilla, called “The Trouble With Intuition,” in this week’s issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. We argue that intuition has been oversold as a method of making sound decisions, and that relying on intuition is dangerous whenever those intuitions concern how […]
By Christopher Chabris, on May 24th, 2010
The Invisible Gorilla has been in the news quite a bit this week. Here is a roundup of some recent mentions and reviews:
The Associated Press ran a review by Rasha Madkour, who wrote, “The authors seek to inspire doubt in the mind’s ability — and they absolutely succeed … filled with fascinating and revealing experiments […]
By Daniel Simons, on May 23rd, 2010
Chris and I have a column in Today’s New York Post on what we’ve called the Illusion of Confidence. In the column, we discuss now-classic work by Justin Kruger and David Dunning on the double curse of incompetence: People who are unskilled are also unaware of it. Kruger and Dunning showed that […]
By Daniel Simons, on May 20th, 2010
Chris and I were on Talk of the Nation yesterday to talk about our new book, The Invisible Gorilla. If you are interested, you can read a transcript and hear the podcast here.
By Daniel Simons, on May 10th, 2010
This week I’m attending the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society in Naples Florida. Every day or so, I’ll post about a subset of the cool, interesting, funny, or quirky (I won’t say which) talks/posters I happened to catch. You can read the first installments here.
This morning had a great new color illusion/demo […]
By Daniel Simons, on May 2nd, 2010
If you look really carefully, you might start spotting discussions of our book, The Invisible Gorilla, in some popular magazines and media outlets. The May issue of Psychology Today (on newsstands this week) has a short review and a feature about everyday illusion. Southwest Airlines’ Spirit Magazine also has a feature about the […]
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