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Books by Daniel Simons

Daniel Simons is an experimental psychologist and professor. He received his doctorate from Cornell University in 1997 and is known for his work on change blindness and inattentional blindness. Together with Christopher Chabris, they won the satirical Ig Nobel Prize for their Invisible Gorilla experiment.

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The Invisible Gorilla

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In their collaborative book “The Invisible Gorilla,” psychologists Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons elaborate upon why we should question our intuition, illustrating their claim using real events and gripping experiments. According to the authors, six everyday illusions influence our lives, which the book thoroughly clarifies, eventually leading to the conclusion that following our gut feeling is often the worst we can do.

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