Ep. 1208: Christopher Chabris Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

My guest today is Christopher Chabris, a cognitive psychologist and a well-known researcher in the fields of psychology and human cognition. He is most famous for his work on the "invisible gorilla" experiment, which he conducted during his graduate studies at Harvard University along with Daniel Simons. This experiment demonstrated the phenomenon of "inattentional blindness," where people fail to notice unexpected objects or events if their attention is focused on a different task.

The topic is his co-authored book Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Cognitive biases and their impact on perception and deception
• Stepping back from heated debates
• Scams, frauds, and deceptions
• Selective data analysis and confirmation bias
• Vaccines and politics
• Thinking critically and seeking truth in divisive topics
• Examining COVID, gender, and Trump through a framework
• Information curation

Jump in!

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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