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THE INVISIBLE GORILLA AND OTHER WAYS OUR INTUITIONS DECEIVE US – “Psychologists in the Mist”

July 6, 2010

The Invisible Gorilla

"Hey, look. There's a sale on bananas!"

Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons

Crown Books, New York

This book by two cognitive psychologists is a little like that bratty kid in high school chemistry lab who knew all the answers but never had any friends. De we really want to know ways our intuition deceives us? The Invisible Gorilla delineates the six everyday illusions of attention, memory, confidence, knowledge, cause and potential. Read the rest of this entry ?

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