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The Invisible Gorilla

The Invisible Gorilla

How Our Intuitions Deceive Us

by Christopher Chabris

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appears in Persuasion, Psychology, and Science.

Reading this book will make you less sure of yourself?and that?s a good thing. In The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, creators of one of psychology?s most famous experiments, use remarkable stories and counterintuitive scientific findings to demonstrate an important truth: Our minds don?t work the way we think they do. We ...

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appears in Persuasion, Psychology, and Science.

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