Christopher Chabris

May 3, 2024 | hnn.us | David P. Barash |Rick Shenkman |Jerome Groopman |Christopher Chabris

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Jul 17, 2023 | behavioralscientist.org | Daniel Simons |Christopher Chabris |Amy C. Edmondson |Adam Grant

Our ability to focus attention on whatever is before us can be highly efficient, but that efficiency benefits us only when the object of our focus represents the full scope of the problem. If we watch a soccer game by focusing only on the side that possesses the ball, we have a chance of decoding that team’s strategy, but we will learn little about what the defensive side is (or is not) doing to counter it.

Jul 17, 2023 | lithub.com | Daniel Simons |Christopher Chabris

In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Henry quips, “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” Wilde was onto something. All publicity boosts familiarity, and if we forget that the familiarity we feel originated in negative information, we tend to treat it as a positive signal—hence the adage that all publicity is good publicity. Have you heard of Sebastian Weisdorf, Valerie Marsh, and Adrian Marr?

Jul 13, 2023 | nautil.us | Daniel Simons |Christopher Chabris

Oct. 14, 1943, was the date of one of the more successful Allied air raids on German factories during World War II. The United States Army Air Forces targeted ball-bearing factories in Schweinfurt in an attempt to disrupt the Nazi war effort. The raid, on what is now known as “Black Thursday,” achieved its goals, but at a great cost. Of the 291 B-17 bombers taking off from Britain, 77 were destroyed and only 33 returned undamaged.

Jul 11, 2023 | dansimons.com | Daniel Simons |Christopher Chabris

Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In And What We Can Do About Itby Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris Published by Basic Books and available July 11, 2023 (translations coming soon)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. Nobody’s Fool, co-authored with Christopher Chabris, shows us how to avoid being taken in.