Christopher F. Chabris
Associate Professor of Psychology and Co-director of Neuroscience Program, Union College
Christopher Chabris is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Union College. In 2004 he was the co-recipient of an Ig Nobel Prize for his now-landmark experiment "Gorillas in Our Midst," which demonstrated that when subjects focused their attention on one thing, they often failed to notice something as conspicuous as a woman in a gorilla suit. His new book "The Invisible Gorilla," based largely on that experiment and reactions to it, explores how the human mind is more fallible than we tend to believe. Chabris received a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1999.
Technological solutions may help increase some of the limits of memory, but we should also simply be aware that our intuitions might be wrong.
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The psychologist demonstrates the “lowest technology” form of memory test.
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We are more likely to believe the veracity of intense “flash-bulb memories”—yet these are just as likely as normal memories to be distorted over time.
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We are seduced by the forecasters who seem the most confident. When we follow their advice, we often believe we’re making better decisions than we are.
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There’s a whole category of intuitions that are systematically wrong in very dangerous ways—those we have about how our own minds work.
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The psychologist’s “invisible gorilla” experiment demonstrates how we often miss major details when we’re concentrating on something else.
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A conversation with the Assistant Professor of Psychology at Union College.
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