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The invisible gorilla

Unabridged. Introduction: everyday illusions -- "I think I would have seen that"--The coach who choked -- What smart chess players and stupid criminals have in common -- Should you be more like a weatherman or a hedge fund manager? -- Jumping to conclusions -- Get smart quick! -- Conclusion: the myth of intuition.

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  • "Unabridged. Introduction: everyday illusions -- "I think I would have seen that"--The coach who choked -- What smart chess players and stupid criminals have in common -- Should you be more like a weatherman or a hedge fund manager? -- Jumping to conclusions -- Get smart quick! -- Conclusion: the myth of intuition."@en
  • "The creators of the famous "gorilla experiment" that demonstrated people's inattention to obvious facts draw on hundreds of creative experiments to whimsically reveal how the human race overrates its mental capacity."
  • "Draws upon scientific discoveries that reveal how the human mind doesn't operate the in ways that people ordinarily presume, exploring the areas of attention, perception, memory, and reasoning. Discusses how faulty intuitions create problems."@en
  • "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 think we see ourselves and the world as they really are, but we're actually missing a whole lot ..."@en
  • "In The Invisible Gorilla, cognitive psychologists Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons combine their own research with true, exemplatory stories to explain how and why the human mind thinks and acts differently than what humans perceive."@en
  • "Taking on commonly held beliefs about how our brains work, authors Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons outline tips and strategies designed to help suppress our 21st-century inclination to automatically trust our intuition."@en

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  • "The invisible gorilla"@en
  • "The invisible gorilla : and other ways our intuitions deceive us"@en
  • "The invisible gorilla [thinking clearly in a world of illusions]"@en
  • "The invisible gorilla [and other ways our intuitions deceive us]"
  • "The invisible gorilla [and other ways our intuitions deceive us]"@en
  • "The invisible gorilla and other ways our institutions deceive us"@en

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