DANIEL SIMONS

From two New York Times-bestselling psychologists, an engaging master class in how to foil purveyors of false promises (Philip E. Tetlock, author of Superforecasting) From phishing scams to Ponzi schemes, fraudulent science to fake art, chess cheaters to crypto hucksters, and marketers to magicians, our world brims with deception. In Nobodys Fool, psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris show us how to avoid being taken in. They describe the key habits of thinking and reasoning that serve us well most of the time but make us vulnerablelike our tendency to accept what we see, stick to our commitments, and overvalue precision and consistency. Each chapter illustrates their new take on the science of deception, describing scams youve never heard of and shedding new light on some you have. Simons and Chabris provide memorable maxims and practical tools you can use to spot deception before its too late. Informative, illuminating, and entertaining, Nobodys Fool will protect us from charlatans in all their formsand delight us along the way.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Our minds dont work the way we think they do. Two renowned psychologists explain how and why our intuitions lead us astray, [spinning] the plain world [we] know into a wonderment of surprising new insights (Time). A must-read for anyone who wants to better understand how the mind works.Associated Press In The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, creators of one of psychologys most famous experiments, use remarkable stories and counterintuitive scientific findings to demonstrate an important truth: We think we see ourselves and the world as they really are, but were actually missing a whole lot. Chabris and Simons combine the work of other researchers with their own findings on attention, perception, memory, and reasoning to reveal how faulty intuitions can lead us to make shocking, costlyeven life-threateningmistakes. In the process, they explain: Why a company would spend billions to launch a product that its own analysts know will fail Why award-winning movies are full of editing mistakes What criminals have in common with chess masters Why measles and other childhood diseases are making a comeback Why money managers could learn a lot from weather forecastersThe Invisible Gorilla reveals the myriad ways that our intuitions can deceive us, but its much more than a catalog of human failings. Chabris and Simons explain why we succumb to these everyday illusions and what we can do to inoculate ourselves against their effects. Ultimately, the book provides a kind of x-ray vision into our own minds, making it possible to pierce the veil of illusions that clouds our thoughts and to think clearly for perhaps the first time.

If a gorilla walked out into the middle of a basketball pitch, youd notice it. Wouldnt you? If a serious violent crime took place just next to you, youd remember it, right? The Invisible Gorilla is a fascinating look at the unbelievable, yet routine tricks that your brain plays on you.In an award-winning and groundbreaking study, psychologists Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons asked volunteers to watch a 60-second film of a group of students playing basketball and told them to count the number of passes made. About halfway through, a woman dressed head to toe in a gorilla outfit slowly moved to centre screen, beat her chest at the camera, and casually strolled away. Unbelievably, almost half of the volunteers missed the gorilla.As this astonishing and utterly unique book demonstrates, exactly the same kind of mental illusion that causes people to miss the gorilla can also explain why many other things, including why:honest eyewitness testimony can convict innocent defendantsexpert money managers suddenly lose billionsHomer Simpson has much to teach you about clear thinkingInsightful, witty, and fascinating, The Invisible Gorilla closely examines the false impressions that most profoundly influence our lives and gives practical advice on how we can minimize their negative impact.

Si un gorila saltase de pronto a una cancha de baloncesto, te darías cuenta, ¿verdad? Si junto a ti se produjese un crimen violento, lo recordaría, ¿no es así? El gorila invisible es una apasionante, amena, rigurosa y muy divertida indagacion en los increibles pero cotidianos trucos que tu cerebro te engaña habitualmente.Los autores de este libro pidieron a un grupo de voluntarios que contemplasen una pelicula de un minuto en la que unos chicos jugaban a baloncesto y contasen los pases. En determinado momento, aparecia en la pantalla una mujer disfrazada de gorila, que se golpeaba el pecho con los puños y se iba. Sorprendentemente casi la mitad de los voluntarios no repararon en el gorila. Para ellos, para su cerebro, era invisble. Este fascinante libro trata de esto y de muchas mas cosas relacionadas con la cognicion, la percepcion, las ilusiones y nuestro cerebro. Y responde a preguntas como estas: ¿por que un testigo honesto puede acabar acusando a un inocente de un crimen?, ¿Por que un ejecutivo experto puede perder millones de euros en un segundo?, ¿por que Homer Simpson te puede enseñar muchas cosas sobre como pensar con claridad?