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The Invisible Gorilla

How Our Intuitions Deceive Us

Book • 2011

In 'The Invisible Gorilla,' Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris use their famous experiment and other scientific findings to show how our minds can miss obvious things due to selective attention.

The book explains various ways our intuitions lead us to make costly and sometimes life-threatening mistakes.

It covers topics such as why companies launch failed products, why award-winning movies have editing mistakes, and what criminals and chess masters have in common.

The authors provide insights into why we succumb to these illusions and how we can become more aware of them to think more clearly.

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Mentioned in 8 episodes

Mentioned by

Apollo Robbins

in relation to inattentional blindness.

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Mentioned by

Chris Williamson

when discussing a study on babies' ability to distinguish sheep faces.

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Mentioned by

David McRaney

as the authors of the book about the famous invisible gorilla experiment.

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Mentioned by

David McRaney

as a book co-authored by

Christopher Chabris

that helped advance scientific understanding of attention.

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Recommended by

Phill Agnew

as a fantastic read, highlighting real-world implications of the Invisible Gorilla experiment.

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Mentioned by

David McRaney

as a book co-authored by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabrie about memory.

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Mentioned by

David McRaney

as a book detailing the implications of inattentional blindness, a phenomenon where we miss things right in front of our eyes due to focusing on something else.

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Mentioned by

Kim Mills

as a 2010 New York Times bestseller, exploring the limits of human awareness and memory.

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Mentioned by John Bartholomew as a book exploring how our intuitions about the mind can mislead us.

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