10251cam a2200577 4500 246489006 TxAuBib 20151116120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307735782 0307735788 933ca1ac-3dd7-4a54-95a9-f91b21e7f868 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 269266 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Chabris, Christopher. The Invisible Gorilla [Libby Audiobook] : And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2010. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 257MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 257MB. HTML: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. Chabris and Simons combine the work of other researchers with their own findings on attention, perception, memory, and reasoning to reveal how faulty intuitions often get us into trouble. In the process, they explain: • Why a company would spend billions to launch a product that its own analysts know will fail • How a police officer could run right past a brutal assault without seeing it • Why award-winning movies are full of editing mistakes • What criminals have in common with chess masters • Why measles and other childhood diseases are making a comeback • Why money managers could learn a lot from weather forecasters Again and again, we think we experience and understand the world as it is, but our thoughts are beset by everyday illusions. We write traffic laws and build criminal cases on the assumption that people will notice when something unusual happens right in front of them. We're sure we know where we were on 9/11, falsely believing that vivid memories are seared into our minds with perfect fidelity. And as a society, we spend billions on devices to train our brains because we're continually tempted by the lure of quick fixes and effortless self-improvement. The Invisible Gorilla reveals the myriad ways that our intuitions can deceive us, but it's much more than a catalog of human failings. Chabris and Simons explain why we succumb to these everyday illusions and what we can do to inoculate ourselves against their effects. Ultimately, the book provides a kind of x-ray vision into our own minds, making it possible to pierce the veil of illusions that clouds our thoughts and to think clearly for perhaps the first time. From the Hardcover edition.. Narrator Dan Woren conveys a bright-eyed fascination with this collection of surprising research on the ways we mentally process the world around us. Though his diction is precise and his phrasing is carefully matched to the nuances of the text, his narration is natural and appealing. The authors summarize research showing how most people are ridiculously overconfident about what they think they see, remember, and know and how they are frequently wrong when making evaluations, attributing causality, and estimating their own potentials. Familiar language and spare writing make the often-lengthy research and anecdotal reports accessible. Helped immensely by near-perfect production, this is a stimulating educational experience for anyone. T.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine. AudioFile Magazine. "A riveting romp across the landscape of our psychological misperceptions. Read this amazing book, but not while you are doing anything else. It will change the way you see the world, and yourself. With vivid examples, sneaky experiments, and everyday experiences, Chabris and Simons convincingly show not only that our minds play tricks on us, but also, more important, that we are -- at our own peril -- programmed to resist recognizing our own blindness. In THE INVISIBLE GORILLA, you should expect the unexpected, to your very great delight. If any work of social science could be a page-turner, this is it.". Nicholas A. Christakis, Professor, Harvard Medical School, and co-author of CONNECTED: THE SURPRISING POWER OF OUR SOCIAL NETWORKS AND HOW THEY SHAPE OUR LIVES. "THE INVISIBLE GORILLA is a humbling journey into the fallibility of our thinking ... Chabris and Simons deliver a persuasive warning that intuition often fails us ... it should be required for anyone convinced of the truth of such intuitive beliefs as the accuracy of eyewitness accounts of important events, the cause-and-effect relationship between vaccinations and autism, and the role of Mozart's music in making babies smarter.". Minneapolis Star Tribune. HTML:" "Entertaining and illuminating ... We all have incredible confidence in the accuracy of our senses, and the tales they tell us about the world we live in. Through clever experiments and captivating stories, THE INVISIBLE GORILLA shows that our confidence is misplaced. This book is a surprising guide to everyday illusions and the trouble they can steer us into.". Dan Ariely, New York Times bestselling author of PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL. HTML:"Chabris and Simons' experiments have become classics, and their influence extends well beyond psychology, with implications for our understanding of consciousness and rationality. Having taught their research to my students at Harvard, I was eager to read THE INVISIBLE GORILLA, and the book did not disappoint.". Steven Pinker, author of HOW THE MIND WORKS and THE STUFF OF THOUGHT. "From courtrooms to bedrooms to boardrooms, this fascinating book shows how psychological illusions bedevil every aspect of our public and private lives. An owner's manual for the human mind!". Daniel Gilbert, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and New York Times bestselling author of STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS. "Too often thinking is depicted in its extremes as the triumph or travesty of intuition. Chabris and Simons present a uniquely nuanced understanding of the power and pitfalls of perception, thought, and memory. This. Jerome Groopman, M.D., Recanati Professor, Harvard Medical School, and author of HOW DOCTORS THINK. "THE INVISIBLE GORILLA is filled with fascinating and revealing experiments that call into question assumptions we have about our mental abilities and those of others...a must-read for anyone who wants to better understand how the mind works.". - Associated Press. "A fascinating look at little-known illusions that greatly affect our daily lives...[THE INVISIBLE GORILLA] offers surprising insights into just how clueless we are about how our minds work and how we experience the world.". HTML:Kirkus Reviews. HTML:"Packed with evidence from hundreds of scientific experiments, it's a persuasive, surprising and even amusing book that will have you rethinking the way you think you see the world ...". HTML:Fort Worth Star Telegram. "As a thoughtful introduction to a captivating discipline, the book succeeds wonderfully... readers who heed the admonitions of Chabris and Simons may be rewarded with a clearer view of the world.". HTML:- Wall Street Journal. "Though Chabris and Simons threaten to pull the rug of reality itself from under us, their fascinating experiments and well-chosen examples keep our feet on the ground, perhaps even more than before.". - SEED Magazine. "The illusion of attention is one of the most important, surprising, and least known flaws in human thinking. This lucid book examines it in detail.". Nassim N. Taleb, author of THE BLACK SWAN. "Full of humor and insight, this book is enlightening and entertaining ... Readers beware: your perception of everyday occurrences will be forever altered.". HTML:Library Journal. "Thought-provoking, entertaining, educational and sobering, this book is a must read for those honest enough to realize they don't or can't, know it all.". HTML:El Paso Times. "[An] engaging treatise on how our intuitions often lead us astray...Illustrated with eye-opening, often humorous examples.". HTML:- Booklist. "Engaging and humane...THE INVISIBLE GORILLA just might teach us to be more humble, understanding and forgiving.". HTML:New York Times. "If the authors make you second-guess yourself 10 times today, they've done their job.". HTML:Psychology Today. Psychology. Nonfiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-11-15 20:00:02. Simons, Daniel. 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